Seok-yeol Yoon directly initiated’Illegal Withdrawal of Kim Hak’… I put the trick of’redividing’

Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui is accused of bribery and sexual crime. Reporter Lim Hyun-dong

On the 13th, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office relocated the suspected illegal withdrawal and concealment of Kim Hak-eui, former vice minister of Justice, from Suwon District Prosecutors’ Anyang District to Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, 3rd Division of Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Prosecutor Lee Jeong-seop). In addition, Criminal Chief of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Lee Jong-geun was excluded from the investigation and command of the case and entrusted the anti-corruption force chief Shin Seong-sik to command. At the time of the illegal withdrawal on March 23, 2019, Criminal Chief Lee Great Swordsman, as a policy adviser to the Minister, has raised suspicions of involvement in the post-mortem response.

It is evaluated that this measure was taken by Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol directly after the allegations of illegal withdrawal from former Vice Minister Kim from the Past Photographic Investigation Group spread to the top of the Ministry of Justice. It is also interpreted that the Anyang branch, which received the case on the 8th of last month, was criticized for crushing the investigation, and instead of a special prosecutor requested by the opposition party, instead of a special prosecutor requested by the opposition party, it was interpreted that it set the trick of “re-distribution,” which can guarantee fairness without the approval of the minister.

On that day, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office 3rd Division (Director Jeong-seop Lee) Reassigned to.

An official at the prosecution said, “The reason is that the prosecutor Lee Jung-seop and Gwangju District Prosecutor General Yeo Hwan-seop investigated the former Vice Minister Kim in the investigation team of Kim Hak, which was conducted as general manager in 2019. He said, “Because we are in charge of controversy over illegal withdrawals, we decided that we could do it more fairly.”

It is also evaluated that the replacement of the investigation team is more “a trick” than the special prosecutor card required by the power of the people. This is because the appointment of a special prosecutor must be approved by the Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae.

Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, who is suspected of bribery and sexual entertainment, is being investigated by the Eastern District Prosecutor in Songpa-gu, Seoul. Reporter Kim Sang-sun

Prosecutor Lee, who was newly appointed as the head of the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, re-invested the suspicion of sexual hospitality and bribery of former Vice Minister Kim’s villa when he served as the 6th Criminal Section of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office. did.

At a trial by former Minister Cho and former Blue House secretaries Won-woo Baek and Hyung-cheol Park in November of last year, Mr. Lee said, “The members of the investigation team remain the same, but those who clapped during the investigation of Kim Hak criticized this investigation.” He even mentioned the case.

“Pia (彼我) can occur in politics and war, but it is difficult to think in the criminal realm. Investigator Pia said there is only’blood’ to commit a crime and cover up and’ah’ to reveal.”

While reassigning the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office to the 3rd Division of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, President Yoon Seok-yeol made the command line for the great swordsman Shin Seong-sik, head of the Anti-Corruption and Power Department, who is in charge of special cases rather than Criminal Lee Jong-geun.

Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui (Won An), who is suspected of “sexual violence and sexual hospitality at the villa,” tried to leave for Thailand through Incheon International Airport on the afternoon of the 22nd, but was imposed an emergency ban on departure immediately before boarding the aircraft and was prevented from leaving the country. Former Vice Minister Kim, who has been waiting at the airport for about five hours, is leaving the airport in the early morning of the 23rd. [JTBC 캡처]

On the morning of March 23, 2019, when Lee was a policy adviser to Minister Park Sang-sang, immediately after the emergency withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim, he came down to the immigration office of the Ministry of Justice and ordered countermeasures. In the Kakao Talk group chat room of the Immigration Division, there was a message saying, “The policy adviser keeps coming and talking (omitted).

In the case of former Vice Minister Kim, various controversies arose as the investigation could not proceed until the end of a month after being allocated. This is because the public interest reporter did not even investigate the reporter even after receiving various evidences that the opposition party gave over.

It was also mentioned that there was a suspicion that the Anyang branch command line was all involved in concealing the’fake case number’ in the withdrawal process of former vice minister Kim. This is because Lee Geun-soo, Director General of Anyang Branch, also worked as the Second Deputy Prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office and Park Jin-won as the Deputy Prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Anyang office side dismissed, saying, “There is no other background or suspicion of crushing.”

Reporters Kim Su-min and Kang Kwang-woo [email protected]