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It was revealed that the taxi driver who was assaulted by the Deputy Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu (photo) reversed the initial statement immediately after the incident.
Overturning “Catch the car while the car is stopped”
According to the changed statement, the special price law cannot be applied.
Controversy led by Lee Jong-geun in the prosecution investigation
On the 22nd, the Seocho Police Station in Seoul said, “The taxi driver (who picked up Lee) told the police who dispatched to the scene on the 6th of last month. ‘I did it.’ It is known that this statement was also included in the incident report prepared by the police dispatched from the Seocho Police Box.
However, three days later, the taxi driver attended the police on the 9th of last month and changed the statement. Deputy Minister Lee said that the taxi driver was “grabbed”, but when he was present, he overturned that he “grabbed him”. Also, in the initial statement, he said that it was “nearly at the destination,” but in the later statement, “the car was stopped.” He said, “I wasn’t sure that (Vice Minister Lee’s) curse was directed at me,” he said. “Because I was embarrassed, I said that I swear at first.”
If the Vice Minister assaulted the driver of a moving vehicle, regardless of the intention of the victim, he can apply the charges of’assaulting the driver in operation’ under the Specific Crimes Weighted Penalty Act (Special Privilege Act). On the other hand, as a taxi driver’s later statement, if you were assaulted in a stopped vehicle, a simple assault charge can be applied. Simple assault is a’anti-intentional dispensation’ in which the victim cannot punish the perpetrator if they do not want to. According to the police, the taxi driver said on the 12th of last month that he did not want the punishment of Vice Minister Yong-gu Lee, and the police dealt with the case’internal investigation’ based on this.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office allocated the case of Lee’s assault of a taxi driver accused by a civic group to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. This case is under the command of the chief of detective Lee Jong-geun, the great swordsman. Some of the prosecutors are concerned, “Isn’t it possible to lead an investigation like’wrap my family’.” At the time, Vice Minister Lee served as the Minister of Justice’s Deputy Minister of Justice’s policy advisor and vice president of the Prosecutors’ Reform Promotion Support Group, leading the Moon Jae-in administration’s’prosecution reform’.
Reporters Kyung-Hyun Kyung-Hyun and Su-Min Kim [email protected]