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On the 16th, Kim Jin-wook, head of criminal investigation of senior public officials, attended the general meeting of the Legislative and Judicial Committee of the National Assembly. News 1
It was revealed that Kim Jin-wook, head of the chief criminal investigation of high-ranking public officials, interviewed the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Lee Seong-yoon, the main suspect in the case, just before being transferred to the prosecution. from the recent ‘Illegal Departure of Former Justice Minister Kim Hak-eui’. Since the head of the investigating agency, the head of the air defense agency, accepted the request for an interview of the suspect who opposed the retransmission of the case, criticism has been raised as “an inappropriate meeting and undermining the independence of the bridge aerial”. ”
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This is because Prosecutor Lee is a young man at President Moon Jae-in’s Kyung Hee University and a candidate for the next attorney general. In addition, there are suspicions that it was due to conversations with prosecutor Lee, who claimed that Kim transferred the case to the prosecution and said they had “conditionally re-transferred it after the investigation.”
At the general meeting of the Legislative Judicial Committee of the National Assembly on the afternoon of the 16th, Kim Jin-wook said, “I met with the prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon just before the new information (12) of the related case.” This is the answer.
“Lee Seong-yoon’s side requested and met multiple times.”
Director Kim said: “In the empty office on the third floor of the Ministry of Public Affairs building, the Chief of Public Affairs (the person), the Deputy Chief of the Airborne Department, Yeo Un-guk, and an investigator interviewed Mr. Lee and his lawyer. He added, “I notified the right to reject statements and investigated (parallel),” he added. “After the interview, I left an investigation report.”
During an interview with Deputy Chief Kim, the prosecutor’s office repeatedly insisted that “this case should not be transferred back to the prosecution because the airlift has exclusive jurisdiction.” Immediately before deciding whether or not to relocate the case, the head of the investigating agency admitted that he had met with the suspect, the prosecutor Lee and his lawyer, to hear their opinion.
Furthermore, after relocating the case on the 12th, Chief Kim Jin-wook sent an official letter saying, “Please send it back after the prosecution has completed the investigation,” revealing that the air defense department will decide. whether to process the case. creating a conflict of power with the investigation team of the prosecution.
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In response, Rep. Kim Do-eup criticized “there is a problem,” saying, “In a politically sensitive case, the head of the airborne department met with a key suspect with the deputy chief of the airlift, and after a long time the interview , resigned from the prosecution. ”
At that time, after receiving the case from the prosecution on the 3rd, Kim announced the re-emigration policy on the 12th after suffering for about 9 days. At the time, Assistant Principal Kim also announced an unusually long statement of about 1,200 characters. “Direct research is best, but we couldn’t ignore the realistic conditions in which the research workforce was unprepared,” he explained. “It was important to consider that it should not cause unnecessary controversy about fairness or cause a breach in the investigation.”
Regarding this, Director Kim drew a line and said, “We only interviewed because we considered the request for an interview to be significant.” He added: “The interview with the prosecutor and the decision to re-transfer the case are irrelevant.”
Rep. Kim insisted, “We need to clarify what kind of conversations went into and out of the interview.” The other party, prosecutor Seong-yoon Lee, said, “There is no reason to answer for the airlift investigation.”
Lee Seong-yoon, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. Yunhap news
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The experts criticize that “the director Kim made a deceptive behavior”. This is because the head of the investigating agency appears to have accepted the suspect’s private complaint.
Lee Chang-hyun, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies School of Law, said: “It is understandable that the chief prosecutor investigated the suspect to determine the merits of the important case and left a record.” “However, in the form of an investigative report, there may be several misunderstandings.” Investigative reports are generally said to be prepared when investigators conduct investigations and report back to the top.
Young-soo Jang, a professor at Korea University School of Law, said: “The moment he announced that he would transfer the case again, he heard the reason why there was no investigative manpower available. Before that, despite the lack of investigative staff, met with Prosecutor Lee and initiated an investigation, such as writing an investigation report, I said: “It does not make sense.” Professor Jang added: “We need to intensively disclose why the investigation was started and the direction of the relocation was changed.”
The Suwon District Attorney, who took over the case, explained that “I received a document from the prosecution in which the opinion of the prosecutor and the investigation report were compiled (only the interviewee, the interviewee and the hours of the interview) “. A prosecution official said: “If you investigate the suspect, you should leave a record and only report the investigation when you confirm that it is exceptionally trivial.”
Kim Jin-wook “should be tried by court” in conditional relocation controversy
On the other hand, on the same day, the Ministry of Public Affairs transferred the case to the prosecution that same day, with a clue that read: “When deciding whether to process a prosecution after an investigation, send it to the airlift.” , “and questions and answers related to the controversy that prosecutors vigorously objected to.
Chief Kim said: “The prosecution asserts that ‘once the airborne has transferred the case, he has no authority to participate in it’, because the type of transfer of the case is misinterpreted as having a single assignee.” It is explained that conditions can also be added to the waiver of the case. Deputy Commissioner Kim defined this spouse as a “conditional spouse who retained public prosecution.” He stressed that “It is the discretion of the Minister of Air Transport to decide whether to make a simple or conditional transfer.” If the controversy continues in the future, Kim said there is no choice but to be tried by the judiciary or the Constitutional Court.
Reporter Minjoong Kim [email protected]
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