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Dong-soo Han, chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. Reporter Woo Sang-jo
As President Moon Jae-in immediately accepts Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol’s thanks on the 4th, the focus is on who will be appointed by the next Attorney General. Outside the prosecution, Lee Seong-yoon (59/23), Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Cho Nam-gwan (56/24), Deputy Chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, and Kim Oh-soo (58/20) , former deputy minister of the Ministry of Justice, are mentioned as candidates. The chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office (55, 24th Judicial Research and Training Institute), which investigates suspected witness tampering in the trial of former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, is also on the rise as the prosecution of the prosecutor, Lee, a third-year student at Kyunghee University, may be prosecuted in the Kim Hak case.
President Moon accepted it around 3 p.m. on the 4th, an hour after Yoon expressed his thanks. A Blue House official said, “The resignation (of President Yoon) has been received by the Ministry of Justice,” and said, “The procedure related to reparation will proceed according to the administrative procedure in the future.” When the administrative procedure of ‘receiving the resignation’ is completed, Yun officially resigns from the position of attorney general. Lee Im-sik decided not to do it separately.
The Blue House immediately began work on the appointment of the next president-elect. A Blue House official only said: “We will follow the relevant procedures prescribed by law” regarding the selection of a successor. According to the Law on the Prosecutor’s Office, the Minister of Justice must submit a request to the President after a procedure to recommend three or more members of the Prosecutor General Candidate Recommendation Committee.
The possibility of ‘Lee Seong-yoon’s prosecution’ quickly emerged as a stand-in for Handong-soo
As a candidate for the next attorney general, first, the chief prosecutor, Han Dong-soo, is emerging prominently. A former judge and lawyer, former Justice Minister Cho Kook, proposed an appointment to the Blue House just before the resignation and took over as chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office.
Although Han is the chief of staff of the attorney general, he is a person who publicly expressed his criticism by setting an angle with Yun, who led the investigation into the family of former minister Cho Kook. In particular, Director Han is the one who caused controversy by obtaining the controversial document “ Judge Investigation Suspicion ” through the channel of a Buddhist statue and returning it to the Ministry of Justice as reference material for the investigation. Furthermore, the case was inspected by former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook through the prosecution policy investigator Im Eun-jeong, the prosecutor’s office of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, without receiving approval for Yoon’s case.
If President Moon appoints a manager as the next president, the first external attorney’s office in history will serve as president. Under current prosecution law, the attorney general can appoint not only prosecutors with more than 15 years of experience, but also judges and attorneys.
Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. Yunhap news
The reason why Han’s prestigious theory has risen rapidly is that there is a possibility that the qualifications to recommend candidates for prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon, who has been ranked first for the next attorney general, could be deprived. Prosecutor Lee is currently under investigation on charges of neglecting the illegal exit ban case against former Deputy Justice Minister Kim Hak. It is noted that it will be burdensome for the Blue House to make a decision to the president in a situation where the possibility of prosecution is high if the issue of the repatriation of senior officials of the criminal investigation agency (aircraft agency) is clarified.
From a passport perspective, there is also an assessment that Lee has pushed through various investigations against the people around President Yoon, but has not shown any achievements so far. There is also a fatal weakness that organizational leadership has been lost even within the central district due to successive government-oriented investigations. However, there is an opinion that there is a possibility for President Moon to appoint Lee’s district attorney, a third-year student at Kyung Hee University law school, taking into account the role of a ” shield ” until after retirement.
If the attorney general with pro-government leanings is appointed, it is highly likely that the nuclear power plant, the illegal recall cases and the cases related to the Blue House elections in Ulsan, supposedly related to the current regime, are highly outdated.
Public Support for Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nam-gwan Cho
Nam-gwan Cho, Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. Yunhap news
Inside the prosecution, there is an atmosphere in which Deputy Prosecutor Cho Nam-gwan is supported as the next president. Vice Minister Cho, Mi-ae Choo, at the time of the former Minister of Justice, served as the Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice and was initially assessed as pro-government. However, in President Yoon’s disciplinary phase, he called for “the withdrawal of the exclusion measure” and rebelled against Minister Chu. Therefore, there is a view that it will be difficult to receive the final election as President Moon’s last attorney general.
In addition, former Deputy Minister Kim Oh-soo, who worked with former Ministers Park Sang-ki, Cho Guk and Chu Mi-ae, and Shim Jae-cheol, the Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, who performed five functions per person. ‘as a reporter and a member of the disciplinary committee during President Yoon’s disciplinary process are also mentioned. The possibility of a third person being appointed cannot be ruled out.
A prosecution official predicted, “Because the resignation wave of President Yoon Seok-yeol is high, no matter who President Moon nominates, there is a possibility of criticism, so we will not be in a rush to make the appointment. .
Reporters Kang Kwang-woo and Jung Yu-jin [email protected]
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