Former Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae is attending a trial on judicial farming held at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 18th of last month. News 1
While the so-called’judge’s inspection document’ was revealed as the main reason for the disciplinary action of the Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, the court administration office was also found to have written a document containing the personal information of nine candidates for the prosecutor-general when he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Yang Seung-tae. The court administration is in the position that “it is difficult to confirm the purpose of writing the document.”
According to the legal community on the 27th, the court administration prepared a 34-page document in October 2015 under the title of “Profile of candidates for the next prosecutor general”. In the literature, Kim Soo-nam, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office at the time, was mentioned as the 41st Prosecutor General’s Candidate, Park Seong-Jae, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Lim Jeong-hyuk, Head of the Legal Affairs Training Institute, Lee Sang-hong, Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office, Kim Gyeong-soo Daegu High Prosecutor’s Office, Choi Jae-kyung, former Incheon District Prosecutor’s Office, Kim Hee-gwan Gwangju High Prosecutor’s Office, Kim Joo-hyun, Deputy Minister of Justice, Cho Sung-wook, Daegu High Prosecutor’s Office. The personal information of 9 people was contained.
The contents of the document included the family relations and personal preferences of the prosecutor-general candidates, as well as the relations with the ruling party politicians. “I have a strong close relationship with Prime Minister Hwang Gyo-an and Min Jung-woo Woo Byeong-woo”, “I have received a lot of criticism from the Democratic Party”, and “Reviews that they made a result in the Ha Myung investigation, but they are also concerned in the passport.” have. Collected through fellow prosecutors and neighboring lawyers, such as “The self-righteous character that came out in slippers when the review prosecutors asked me to buy a drink late at night”, “I was self-righteous during the first prosecutor, but transformed into a humble style while going through ministry classes at church.” It also contains information that seems to be.
The characteristic family relations and the status of property listed in the official gazette were also described in detail. For one candidate, the real names of the legal family members were listed as being “from a typical legal family”, and related to the property status, analysis such as “owning 370 pyeong of land as a descendant of the family” and “a spouse’s property is likely to down contract” Also added.
In terms of the contents and preparation method of the document, there is a similar aspect to the document of’Analysis of the Judicial Division of Major Special and Public Security Cases’ that Yoon directed to the Office of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. However, the Ministry of Court Administration emphasized that this is not a new suspicion, saying, “It was distributed to the media when the Supreme Court’s special investigation team on allegations of abuse of judicial administration in May 2018 announced the results of the investigation.” He said, “The contents of the document are not disclosed, and it is difficult to confirm the purpose and process of writing the document.” Some speculate that the document was created to help judges, as the Deputy Commissioner of the Court Administration Department is included as an ex officio member of the Prosecutor General Candidate Recommendation Committee.
The investigation team of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office of Justice Nongdan also secured and reviewed the document during the investigation, but did not find any illegality. At the time, an official from the investigation team said, “It was not that the other party’s weaknesses were caught through the document or the back-up investigation was conducted to prepare the document,” and said, “It was not a problem for the court administration to take an interest in the public official (candidate of the Prosecutor General) related to the work. “He explained.
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