Taxi driver assault case’internal business closure’ controversy
Concerns about “the police will handle the case at will from next year”
In the case of the prosecution’s re-investigation, Seok-yeol Yoon is the final decision
Lee Yong-gu, vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, is attending a meeting for overseas Koreans in the general situation room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communications in the annex of the Seoul Government Complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 23rd. Newsis
The assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu of the Ministry of Justice is spreading as a controversy over the adjustment of the prosecutor’s and police’s authority. The prosecution is concerned that if the police are given the right to terminate the first investigation from next year due to the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act, the likelihood of a “case ruin” (covering the case secretly) will increase, as in the case where the police did not establish Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu.
According to the prosecution on the 27th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Dong-Eon Lee) of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office asked the police whether to directly investigate the case where civic groups accused the Vice Minister of violating the Special Offenses Act (Special Privilege Act) in relation to the assault of a taxi driver. It is due this week whether to send the case and lead the investigation. The prosecution is also considering the fact that the Seocho Police Station can take over the investigation again if the police investigate it, that the accused is a high-ranking public official, and that judicial judgment is an important case. In connection with the suspicion that the Seocho-seo investigation team handled the case of Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu poorly, the prosecution has not yet decided on the subject of the investigation.
Deputy Minister Lee is known to have swear words to a taxi driver who carried him in front of his home in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the night of the 6th of last month while he was a lawyer. The police ended an internal investigation without filing this loan because the taxi driver did not want to be punished.
A view of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 16th of this month. yunhap news
Inside the prosecution, concerns are expressed that the case showed a’blind spot’ in the prosecutor’s and light-investigation authority adjustment plan, which will take effect on January 1 of next year. According to the current criminal procedure law, when an investigation is initiated, the police must send all documents and evidence to the prosecutor regardless of whether they have an opinion of prosecution or non-prosecution. Stipulates that they are sent. Like the prosecution, the police were given the authority to terminate the investigation. The prosecution has pointed out that with the revision of the Criminal Procedure Act, even if the police unfairly terminates the case in the future, it cannot be under the judicial control of the prosecution as before, but the case of Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu revealed such a blind spot.
An incumbent prosecutor who has extensive experience in commanding the investigation said, “It is more important whether the’invisible hand’ influenced the police’s disposition to close the internal investigation rather than whether Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu was guilty.” “I emphasized. Rep. Kim Woong, who was a former prosecutor, said, “If the revised rule of investigation is correct, the police who initiated the investigation may freely terminate the case or over-investigate the suspect.” He pointed out that the corruption investigation may disappear at all.”
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who returned to work following the court’s decision to suspend the disciplinary action, is on his way to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 25th. yunhap news
As such, the current government’s influential personnel are the subject of investigation, and as such an incident can become a catalyst for the prosecution-police conflict, attention is also being paid to the choice of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. Vice Minister Yong-gu Lee is a member of the Prosecutor’s Disciplinary Committee of the Ministry of Justice, who gave a disposition to President Yoon for “two months of honesty,” and he is receiving more attention because he is a person who stood opposite to President Yoon. A prosecutor’s officer at the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office said, “If the prosecution directly investigates the case of this vice-minister, Yun will have no choice but to receive reports of the investigation situation from time to time. The choice of President Yoon as to whether to prosecute or apply the law may affect the case.” I looked out.
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