Seo Ji-hyun, Ahn Tae-geun innocent “sexual harassment, personnel retaliation, recognized fact”

After prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s revelation of’Me Too’ in 2018, the first trial for damages of 100 million won against Ahn Tae-geun and the government in November of the same year took place on the 19th in two years and four months. Prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun argued that “the sexual harassment and personnel retaliation of the former prosecutor’s office of Ahn has been recognized.”

Seoul Central District Court Civil 93 exclusive Judge Kim Dae-won held the first pleading for damages lawsuit against the Republic of Korea with Seo Prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun, former Prosecutor General of the Ministry of Justice.

In November 2018, Prosecutor Seo filed a lawsuit stating that he suffered damage from illegal acts such as sexual harassment and personnel retaliation by Ahn Jeon. However, the first trial was held for two years and four months waiting for Ahn’s criminal judgment to be finalized.

Former Director Ahn was prosecuted in April 2018 on charges of obstructing the exercise of ex officio abuse rights, was sentenced to two years in prison at the first and second trials, and was remanded by the Supreme Court for innocence. In September of last year, the ruling repatriation court sentenced Ahn Jeon-guk to acquittal, and the ruling was finalized. The’Prosecutor’s Sexual Harassment Investigations and Damage Restoration Investigation Group’, organized after the prosecution’s exposure, said that the case of forced harassment by Ahn Jeon was not able to be filed after the period of the complaint, and only charged with ex officio abuse.

Even in the first civil trial on this day, the arguments of both sides about’recognition of the facts of sexual harassment’ ran parallel. Prosecutor Seo argued that “Ahn was legally acquitted of the charges of abuse of authority, but he admitted to the facts of sexual harassment and personnel intervention in the first and second trials.”

On the other hand, Ahn’s side refuted that “the facts mentioned in the abandoned lower court cannot be regarded as confirmed facts.” He refuted that “the forced harassment was not even prosecuted, and in relation to the forced harassment, he was intoxicated at the time, so he couldn’t remember it.”

Both sides informed the court that there was no additional evidence The judges concluded the hearing on this day and designated May 14 as the date of election.did.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor said that one of the cases in which three incumbent prosecutors were sued to the police after Me Too was recently transferred to the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation office. Seo Ki-ho, attorney at Prosecutor Seo said, “I received a call from the police on the 12th that I had transferred the case of former Justice Department Prosecutor General Kwon Mo Kwon, who was being investigated for job abandonment.”

In May 2019, Prosecutor Seo sued three incumbent prosecutors on charges of abandonment and defamation. In the case of former prosecutor general manager Kwon Mo, he was accused of abandonment of duties that he did not take any follow-up measures even after interviewing the prosecutor after the revelation. Among them, the case of job abandonment was transferred to the airlift in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations.

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