The prosecution immediately refuted Kim Jin-wook’s claim that “there was no record recording the details of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office,” and “the investigation report was delivered to the prosecution when re-transferring.” did.
Earlier, at the plenary meeting of the Legislative Judicial Committee held at the National Assembly on the 16th, Deputy Chief Kim discussed the fact that he met the prosecutor before re-transferring the case of’Illegal Departure of Kim Hak-ei’ to the prosecution. He insisted on whether or not to write the record, “I sent the opinion and all the documents submitted by the attorney together (to the prosecution at the time of resignation).”
Senior Public Officials Crime Investigation Chief Kim Jin-wook attends the general meeting of the Legislative Judicial Council held at the National Assembly on the 16th and is wearing glasses. News 1
However, Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office said to the reporters on the afternoon of that day, “In the record sent from the airlift on the 15th, in addition to the documents produced by the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office, the opinion of the District Prosecutor’s Office, the interviewee, the interviewee, and the investigation report containing only the interview hours are compiled. There were no records or documents that recorded interview details,” he immediately refuted.
Prosecutor Lee is under suspicion of halting the investigation in the case of the withdrawal of former vice minister Kim, which was being investigated by the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office at the time he served as the anti-corruption force chief of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in June 2019.
On the 12th, the Ministry of Public Service relocated the case of incumbent prosecutors, such as Prosecutor Lee and former Supreme Prosecutor Kyu-won Lee, to the prosecutors’ office, and requested that the case be sent back after the investigation was completed.
The air defense department has only transferred the investigation part, and the prosecution part is under the jurisdiction of the air defense department, but the prosecution is protesting that it is “a weird logic that you haven’t heard or seen.”
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On the other hand, in the legal community, it was interpreted as a strategy for preparing for the prosecution’s subpoena notification of the voluntary application for an interview with the prosecutor’s office. It is pointed out that it is a trick to build a justification not to respond to the prosecution’s request for attendance, leaving a record of being present and being investigated while the case was transferred to the air defense department.
In fact, Prosecutor Lee received a request for attendance three times from the prosecution since the transition to the suspect’s status on the 18th of last month, but did not respond to the subpoena request by submitting a statement denying the allegations.
The prosecution is planning to make a request for attendance once again, seeing that a face-to-face investigation of the district prosecutor is absolutely necessary.
Prosecutor Lee said, “There are no matters that can be answered about the progress of the procedure, such as the investigation of the airlift.”
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