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The researcher judged unusually as a prosecutor
According to the legal profession on the 1st, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office sent an official letter to the Ministry of Justice on the 22nd of last month after the prosecution’s appointment as an intermediate executive. It is reported that the Ministry of Justice has not yet responded to the Great Sword.
At the time of personnel affairs, the Ministry of Justice explained, “We also granted investigative powers to research officers to reinforce the efficiency and function of the inspection work.” On the basis of that, I heard Article 15 of the Prosecutors’ Office Act that prosecutors research officers can concurrently serve as prosecutors at the high prosecutors’ office or local prosecutors’ office. However, it was interpreted that it was quite unusual to issue an adjunct appointment to a researcher who studies policy under the direction of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. Justice Minister Park Beom-gye also said, “I know that Prosecutor Lim Eun-jung hopes to have the right to investigate” to a related question from a member of the National Assembly. He avoided a detailed answer to the question, “If you wish the great sword researcher to have the authority to investigate, will you give all the authority to investigate?”
Researcher Lim has been investigating the suspicion of a coercive investigation and perjury teacher by the investigation team in the case of the former Prime Minister Han’s illegal political money transfer at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. However, the fact-finding investigation proceeded slowly, and the statute of limitations for related cases was less than a month left. Researcher Lim said when the greetings were announced, “I wasn’t having trouble with my heart because I didn’t have the right to investigate, but I was given the right to investigate,” he said.
In the case of former Prime Minister Han, former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae and Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol strongly clashed over the subject of the inspection and the treatment method.
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