Five prosecutors were put together in a day after the case was redistributed to form an investigation team.
Closely reviewing the situation before and after Kim Hak’s emergency departure ban in March 2019
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Suwon District Prosecutor, who was reassigned to the case of a ban on departure from former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, which was controversial over procedural illegality, formed an investigation team within one day.
Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office announced on the 15th that it had started a full-fledged investigation in the case of former vice-minister Kim by forming an investigation team headed by Lee Jung-seop (49, 32nd Judicial Research and Training Institute) as the team leader. In particular, Prosecutor Lee is famous for taking on the case of former Vice Minister Kim and inducing punishment in the investigation team related to the Prosecution’s Past Investigation Committee investigation recommendation. Recently, Jae-soo Yoo, former Vice Mayor of Busan City, was in charge of the investigation of the suspicion of’Prosecutor Muma’ and indicted Cho Kook, former Minister of Justice.
In the investigation team, Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, Lim Se-jin, Pyeongtaek District 2nd Criminal Division Chief (42/34) and three Suwon District Prosecutors’ Officers were employed. The supervising and directing of the investigation will be undertaken by the second deputy chief of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office.
First of all, the prosecution is investigating data related to the investigation, such as a public interest report submitted to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office at the end of last year after receiving the power of the people from the informant.
According to the public interest report, officials in charge of immigration of the Ministry of Justice at the time, according to the instructions from the upper part of the government, inquire and report personal information, including departure information of former Vice Minister Kim, 177 times from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month. Was illegally inspected.
In addition, the former Minister of Justice Park Sang-sang, etc., knowing the circumstances of the illegal emergency ban on former Vice Minister Kim using the personal information obtained by the dispatched prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Past Photographic Investigation Group, who does not have the right to investigate. In the morning of the 23rd, the withdrawal request was approved.
In summary, the public interest reporter argues that the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Health Examination Team have violated laws and committed illegal acts such as inspection of civilians, violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, and illegal emergency withdrawal.
In response to this, the Ministry of Justice said on the 12th, “This prosecutor was an’investigation agency’ that was ordered at the time as a’prosecutor for the Seoul East District Prosecutor’s Office’, and has the authority to request an emergency withdrawal.” It was necessary to take into account the urgent circumstances that were on the verge of fleeing abroad.
After reviewing the public interest report, the prosecution is expected to go into a legal review to see if there was any illegal activity in the process of emergency withdrawal measures for former Vice Minister Kim.
The respondents of this public interest report include high-ranking officials such as former Minister Park, former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Osu, and Immigration Headquarters Gyu-geun Cha, prosecutor Lee, and a number of public officials from the Ministry of Justice. The prospect comes out.
In the legal profession, it is also cautiously said that the prosecution is considering seizure and search of the Ministry of Justice.
/ Reporter Park Woo-in [email protected]
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