Suspect’Lee Seong-yoon’ spreads controversy over’emperor investigation’ riding official car

Input 2021.04.03 16:15

Kim Jin-wook, the head of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Department, admitted that he interviewed Lee Seong-yoon, the chief suspect in the case of’Illegal Withdrawal of Kim Hak’s,’ The controversy over the’emperor investigation’ is spreading, as Deputy Director Kim explained that “it was because of security, and because of the lack of vehicles, the official car was used by the chief of public transport.”

In particular, on the 2nd, after the clarification that “there are two official vehicles that can enter the government building (other than the official vehicle), the second vehicle could not be used because it was used for convoy of arrest suspects.” have.

It was revealed recently that Kim’s official car was provided on Sunday, March 7 (Sunday), in the process of investigating District Prosecutor General Lee Seong-yoon at the Gwacheon Government Complex Airborne Department. On this day, the Chief Prosecutor of the District was transferred to Chief Kim’s Genesis official car near the airlift, and about 1 hour and 20 minutes later, he got off the same seat again and transferred to the vehicle he had been on, recorded on a nearby CCTV.

At that time, Deputy Chief Kim met the prosecutor, Lee, who was the suspect, but controversy arose by leaving documents that recorded only the date and time, place, and interviewee without leaving a record.

Attorney Kim Jong-min, a former prosecution attorney, said in an article on Facebook the day before, “The excuse of Kim Jin-wook (the chief of public prosecution) that it was unavoidable for security is not worth the trouble.” He criticized, “Would the reference person be carried as an official vehicle for the Minister of Public Transport?”

In an article posted on Facebook the day before, lawyer Yang Hong-seok of Lee Gong, a former participatory solidarity, criticized the preferential investigation that provided a tolerance difference, saying, “No matter how much I roll my head, it is difficult to understand with my common sense and legal knowledge.” Attorney Yang pointed out, “Because we introduced a new type of high-ranking public officials investigation technique, we also had a law to think that it was human rights-friendly,” he said. “But we call this a preferential treatment, an emperor investigation.”

In addition, the public car was driven by the secretary of the 5th class (secretary) of Director Kim, not the driver, and suspicion of’preferential hiring’ was raised over the driving of secretary Kim Mo. After passing the bar exam in April of last year, Secretary Kim was specially appointed as Secretary Kim’s secretary in January this year. Secretary Kim’s father is also a lawyer Kim Mo, who was eliminated from the primary after applying for the nomination of Ulsan Ulju County head to the Democratic Party during the 2018 June 13 local election. The Democratic Party’s representative who exercised the right to nominate at the time was former Attorney General Choo Mi-ae, and attorney Kim was the alumni of Choo’s Hanyang University law school and the 14th motive of the Judicial Research and Training Institute. There is a suspicion that this background influenced secretary Kim’s special appointment.

Regarding the suspicion of preferential treatment, Minister Choo in an article posted on Facebook on the morning of the 3rd said, “My alma mater Hanyang University is a school that has produced hundreds of thousands of graduates.” He criticized the reports of the allegations.