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Former Justice Minister Cho Kook attended the trial of his wife Chung Kyung-shim, a professor at Dongyang University, as a witness.
Former Minister Cho refused to answer all the questions, saying the defendant is a spouse and is also being tried separately, so he will veto the testimony.
Reporter Kang Hee-kyung reports.
[기자]Professor Kyung-Shim Chung of Tong Yang University attended the court to stand trial on charges of illegal admission and private equity.
At the same time, her husband, former Justice Minister Cho Kook, entered the same court through a private passage.
For the first time, Minister Cho was adopted as a witness by his wife, Professor Kyung-Shim Chung, and the couple stood side by side in a courtroom for the first time.
[정경심 / 동양대 교수 : (조국 전 장관님 증인으로 나오는데 어떠세요?) …….]On the witness stand, former Minister Seon Jo said he would exercise the right to veto testimony, a right granted by the Criminal Procedure Law.
The reason was that the defendant was a spouse, the child’s name was written on the indictment, and he was also prosecuted separately.
Instead, I prepared a two-page statement and tried to read it, but the judge said that it was not related to the right to refuse to testify, and most comments were not allowed, so only a brief position was revealed.
The prosecution immediately protested.
Throughout the investigation, he declined to make a statement and said that he would reveal the truth in court, and since he has constantly spoken through social media, he must actively testify.
In response, Professor Chung’s lawyer refuted that he did not know why he should be charged with exercising his legal rights.
Former Minister Cho also tried to refute himself, but the judge repressed that the Witnesses were the ones who answered the questions and not the ones who spoke.
At the end of the battle, a witness newspaper managed to get started, but Cho refused to answer all the questions, repeating that he would follow article 148 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
The testimony was terminated after only questions from the prosecution and objections from lawyers were repeated, and the lawyers did not question separately.
[김칠준 / 정경심 교수 측 변호인 : 법정에서 가족 간 행위에 대해 일일이 진술한다는 것 자체가 증언하기에 아주 부적절하다….]Former Minister Cho is being tried as a defendant with his wife, apart from Professor Jeong’s trial, and a hearing is currently being held on the prosecutor’s suspicions.
When the prosecution hearing is over, sooner or later a hearing will be held on suspicion of family corruption. At that time, former Minister Cho and Professor Jeong are expected to be side by side in the defendant’s seat.
YTN Kang Hee-kyung[[email protected]]it is.
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