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In September last year, then-Justice Minister Cho Kook attended a staff hearing held at the National Assembly and heard inquiries from lawmakers. Reporter Oh Jong-taek

“It is clear that my son did volunteer work”

A scene at former Justice Minister Cho Kook’s personal audience meeting in September last year. When Park Ju-min, a member of the Democratic Party, asked about Cho Min’s volunteer work at Tongyang University in 2012, former Minister Cho replied.

At the hearing, former Minister Cho said that it was clear that Mr. Cho’s internship at the Seoul National University Public Interest Human Rights Law Center was also “clear” and that he “did not participate” in the internship. Furthermore, the opposition lawmaker’s investigation refuted that Mr. Cho had also been an intern at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) for approximately two weeks.

Professor Kyung-Shim Chung from Dongyang University will attend the first trial hearing held at the Seoul District Court on the 23rd. Professor Jeong was arrested in court that day. Reporter Woo Sang-jo

However, the first court of first instance of Dongyang University professor Kyung-Shim Chung decided that Cho’s explanation was not true. The appeal trial and the Supreme Court ruling stood, but Professor Chung’s ruling, comprised of three chief justices, believed that Cho had lied.

Content of the judgment of first instance of the judicial process. Graphic = Reporter Kim Young-ok [email protected]

The word “false” is repeated dozens of times in Professor Jeong’s 570-page ruling of the first trial. The phrase “conspire with the homeland” also appears several times. Professor Chung’s lawyers immediately appealed the sentence from the first trial, saying it was a “wrong decision”.

Professor Chung’s first trial judged that Cho Min’s activities ▶ Dankook University Experience (1 author’s thesis) ▶ Gongju University Experience Activities ▶ Intern at the Center for Human Rights Public Interest Law of the Seoul National University ▶ Aqua Palace Hotel Intern ▶ KIST Intern ▶ Tongyang University Research Activities ▶ Tongyang University citations were all false. This is the content that Professor Chung’s side claimed to be true in court.

Former Minister Cho also explained at the staff hearing that Mr. Cho actually performed most of the activities related to this specification. The following is a comparison between Cho’s response to Mr. Cho’s false specification accusations at the time of the personal hearing and Professor Jeong’s judge’s trial.

On October 1 last year, as the president of the main assembly of the National Assembly, then-Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon (left) and former Justice Minister Cho Kook, who finished their answer, they come across the head bowed. [뉴스1]

Professor Chung’s judiciary admitted part of Cho’s participation in the public offering for the replacement of the domestic PC hard drive, which former Minister Cho stubbornly denied, and his participation in the review of the private equity management report.

Former Minister Cho denied having participated in the destruction of evidence, saying, “Just a ritual salute” to Kim Gyeong-rok PB when he replaced the PC hard drive at home. During the prosecution’s investigation, Kim said he had heard words to the effect of “Thank you for helping your wife” from former Minister Cho, but former Minister Cho said in a plenary session of the National Assembly: “I don’t remember saying that purpose. ”

Prof. Chung’s judicial team also disagreed with Cho’s position on the alleged destruction of evidence. The judge said, “We can admit that former Minister Cho and Professor Jeong conspired to hide the hard disk of the home PC and the PC of the professor’s laboratory at Tong Yang University,” and considered Cho as an accessory in destroying tests. However, Professor Jung said that he and Kim could not be punished under current law by destroying their criminal evidence.

Lawyer Kim Chil-joon, a lawyer for Professor Kyung-Shim Chung from Dongyang University, is answering the journalist’s questions after completing a trial for Professor Chung’s first trial at the Seoul Central District Court on the 23rd. . [연합뉴스]

After receiving a private equity fund management report that did not contain a “blindness clause” at home, Cho was charged with forgery without presenting it to the hearing.

In this regard, the court admitted that former Minister Cho received the management report at his home from the Korink PE officials, and that Professor Chung and former Minister Cho did not submit to the Preparatory Hearing Team because the data received at that time moment they were considered unfavorable for them. . However, the fact that Professor Jeong ordered the falsification of the report was acquitted, saying, “It has not been proven without any reasonable doubt.”

Professor Jeong and former Minister Cho’s defense team refute that they cannot understand all the judges’ sentences. At the appeal hearing, he said he would reconsider the facts from the beginning. However, a lawyer who was a superior judge said: “The conclusion of Professor Jeong’s first trial was judged by the Supreme Court, which consists of three main judges, for eight months.”

Reporter Park Tae-in [email protected]