“The anti-corruption department directly called’Moongu’ Lee Seong-yoon to stop Kim Hak’s investigation”

At the time, it was revealed that the anti-corruption force department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office called the’text’ of the report that stopped the investigation on the alleged illegal departure (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-ei. At the time, the head of the anti-corruption force of the great swordsman was Lee Seong-yoon, the current Seoul central district prosecutor. This is the content of the second public interest report filed on the 20th following the first public interest report stating that the District Attorney General attempted to cover up the allegations of illegal withdrawal from former Vice Minister Kim. In the second public interest report, the suspicion of concealment of the District Prosecutor’s Office was described in more detail.

According to the 14-page second public interest report obtained by the JoongAng Ilbo on the 22nd, the Anyang branch, which received the distribution of the former vice minister Kim case on April 10, 2019, said, “Information on the withdrawal of former vice minister Kim from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office on July 4, 3 months later, Report on the investigation results of the alleged leaked case. Five days later, on July 10, the case was closed by treating two public interest judges and three immigration officials as’no charges’.

The Anyang branch reported in the report on the results of the investigation, stating that’the investigation will no longer be conducted on whether emergency withdrawal is illegal.’ The reason stated that’there is no further progress plan as it was confirmed that the procedure for preparing related documents was in progress in an urgent situation at night, and a follow-up report was made to the Dongbu District Prosecutors’ Office.’ However, this was in response to a request from the Ministry of Anti-Corruption and Strength of the Great Swordsman at the time to “insert the relevant phrase and prepare a final investigation result report.” At the time, the Great Sword Anti-Corruption and Power Department demanded that the investigation be terminated and that the relevant phrase be specified. On the 17th, when a suspicion of illegal withdrawal was raised, the Ministry of Justice issued a five-page entry statement and said, “The time when former vice-minister Kim’s attempt to depart abroad was only 1 hour and 20 minutes before boarding the plane. It was a situation,” he said, and it is strangely similar to the content he argued for the inevitability of withdrawal measures at the time.

The front-line prosecutors believe that the reason for the suspension of the investigation stated in the report at the request of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of Anti-Corruption Forces at the time could not be the logic justifying the illegal withdrawal. In particular, with regard to the’post-approval of the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office,’ Han Chan-shik, the Seoul District District Prosecutor’s Office at the time, was known to have rejected the request, “Please make this prosecutor’s urgent withdrawal request post-approval. At the time, Prosecutor Seong-yoon Lee is designated as the person who made such a request to the Dongbu District Prosecutors’ Office.

In addition, the prosecutor dispatching the Supreme Prosecutors’ Past Deputy Affairs Investigation Team, who withdrew Kim, was notified of Kim’s attempt to leave the country, and in response to an emergency withdrawal request sent to Incheon Airport at 0:08 on the 23rd, former Vice Minister Kim was not accused in 2013. The case number of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office was entered. It is known that after blocking the departure, an emergency withdrawal approval request was made using an internal internal number that did not exist at the time. Even though the request for approval of the emergency withdrawal did not contain the fact that the withdrawal authority was not delegated by the Seoul East District Prosecutor’s Office, Han Chan-sik, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office, Han Chan-sik vs. Lee Gyu-won, was written by hand.

In June 2019, a month before the investigation was halted, the Anyang branch also recognized this fact and tried to report the prosecutor’s misconduct to the Suwon High Prosecutor’s Office, but gave up because it was possible to write false official documents and events, and to write and exercise false official documents.

In response, the prosecution said, “In the process of reporting the investigation process in real time by the Anyang branch at the time, I was informed by the Ministry of Anti-Corruption and Power of the Supreme Prosecutors at the time to stop the investigation beyond the scope of the request for investigation, and I was unable to report any misconduct of this prosecutor” Suspicion was raised.

Regarding this, the public interest report said, “At the time, the chief prosecutor of the anti-corruption force, Lee Seong-yoon, recognized the illegality investigation of the emergency withdrawal and stopped the investigation.” However, a prosecution official at the time said, “How can the great sword block the investigation report on the front line? If the main sword advises on the investigation report on the front line, if all the advice is to interfere with the investigation, there is nothing that the great sword can do.” I have never done it,” he refuted.

Reporter Jung Yujin [email protected]