[단독]100-page report of “Han Dong-hoon not charged”, Lee Sung-yoon fired for a month

Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon finally passed the year without reaching any conclusions on the ‘Channel A Proverb Convergence Case’. Notably, the investigation team is reported to have released a 100-page innocence report against prosecutor Han Dong-hoon (an investigator with the Legal Affairs and Training Institute) early last month. It is analyzed that the delay of more than nine months is due to the concern that the framework of “ fiscal confusion ” that the Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae raised as a cause of the tax reform will be broken if a prosecutor is imputed .

Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon attended the Legislative Judicial Council’s state affairs audit held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on October 19 last year to answer questions. [뉴스1]

According to JoongAng Ilbo’s coverage on the 1st, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (Prosecutor Byun Pil-gun), which is investigating the Channel A case, concluded a non-prosecution against a prosecutor in early December last year. and published a report on the reasons for innocence of more than 100 pages. It was sent to the second deputy district attorney for the district attorney’s office. This is because District Attorney General Lee Seong-yoon entrusted the approval to Deputy Chief Prosecutor Choi on behalf of First Deputy District Attorney Kim Wook-jun, who expressed his appreciation early last month. Since then, Deputy General Choi has not made a decision by taking the entire investigation record to review the record.

In the report, former Channel A reporter Lee Dong-jae (35, indictment arrested) threatened a letter to former CEO of Value Invest Korea (VIK) Lee Chul (55, incarcerated) to investigate Roh Si’s suspected corruption. -min, President of the Roh Moo Hyun Group. It was judged that there was no content to prove it in the Channel A transcript, which is the central evidence of the alleged conspiracy.

In the transcript, Prosecutor Han said that when Channel A reporters raised the suspicions of President Yoo Si-min, he said, “I am not interested, he is not a politician.” This transcript is a recording of a conversation between former reporter Lee and reporter Baekmo Channel A with a prosecutor from the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office in Busan in February last year. The report also said reporters Lee and reporters Paik denied a conspiracy relationship with a prosecutor in the prosecution’s investigation.

In response, the central district attorney said: “It is true that the second deputy chief is in confrontation (alternate approval), but the investigation and review are ongoing according to procedure.”

It is said that there is no disagreement within the investigation team, despite the fact that a prosecutor is not on trial. In August last year, the investigation team of the former Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (currently Gwangju District Prosecutor’s Deputy Prosecutor) Jeong Jin-woong, former Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, was unable to reveal the collusive relationship. between Prosecutor Han and former Channel A reporter Lee Dong-jae. At that time, the investigation team detained the former reporter on August 5 last year for attempted coercion under the Penal Law, and rejected the conspiracy with a prosecutor.

To find out whether a prosecutor’s office was conspired, on the morning of July 29 last year, Deputy Prosecutor Chung issued a warrant for the seizure and search of a mobile phone SIM card of a prosecutor at the Yongin branch of the Institute of Training in Legal Affairs. In the process, a fight broke out, resulting in the death of only the deputy chief who was charged with self-directed violence last year and was tried. In early July last year, the Prosecutor’s Investigation Deliberation Committee also recommended that a prosecutor be suspended and not prosecuted.

Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol visited the Busan Superior Prosecutor’s Office on the afternoon of February 13 last year and greeted Prosecutor Han Dong-hoon, Deputy Prosecutor of Busan High School. [연합뉴스]

The legal community believes that the decision to free of charges against a prosecutor is actually a denial of the “prosecutorial conflict” framework, which is why the prosecutor’s prosecutor is postponing approval. Some analysts say they are concerned that failure to prosecute a prosecutor will undermine the legitimacy of the Justice Department’s disciplinary action against Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol. On the 16th of last month, the Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice voted for a two-month suspension against President Yoon, and included two of the four grounds for disciplinary action (interference in the investigation of the Channel A case and interference in the investigation).

There are also critics comparing the late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s sexual harassment case to no charge after five months for failing to reach a conclusion during the ninth month since the investigation began.

This incident came to light in late March last year through MBC’s “verbal collusion” report. Subsequently, in April of the same year, the Citizens’ Democratic Press Association (Min Eon-ryeon) charged the former reporter and the ‘Buda Prosecutor’s Statement’ with the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office for blackmail. At the time, Min Eon-ryeon filed an indictment, saying, “The former reporter threatened the reporter by entering into relations with the prosecutor, who is believed to be a close friend of General Yoon.”

Reporters Jung Yoojin and Kim Soomin [email protected]