Prosecutor ‘assistant Chu’, who has released the statement, returns to his son’s investigation team

It was confirmed on the 4th that the prosecutor Kim Gwan-jeong of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office, investigating the suspicion of the “ return to military leave ” of the son of Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, requested the chief prosecutor and The prosecutor, who was appointed as the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office last month and as the chief prosecutor, to be forwarded to the prosecutor. The two men who requested the dispatch of Chief Prosecutor Kim are known to have omitted a statement from the military officers in which they stated that “I received a phone call from Minister Chu.” In this regard, a suspicion of a ‘downsizing investigation’ was raised both within and outside the prosecution, saying: “Isn’t Kim trying to get the investigative manpower back at that time and conclude the investigation into the case of the Minister Chu’s son at the previously established address? “

In summary, Chief Prosecutor Kim requested that Prosecutors B and C, who were in charge of investigating Captain A, who was the military superior of Minister Chu’s son, be sent back to the Eastern District in June. Prosecutor B, who was the chief prosecutor in the case of Minister Chu’s son, was promoted to vice chairman of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office from the center of the prosecutor’s office announced on 27 last month. Investigator C, who is said to have investigated Captain A himself, also switched to the great sword.

On day 1, Captain A’s testimony “I received a phone call to extend the vacation from Minister Chu” was revealed through Representative Won-sik Shin, the People’s Power. However, the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office amplified the suspicion by denying that “there was no such statement anywhere in the file.”

Meanwhile, it was known that Kim Nam-woo, a former deputy prosecutor at the Dongbu (Sajik) district attorney’s office, who was in the line of command of the investigation in this case, did not adequately report on the status of the investigation. , for example, “ omit Captain A’s statement ” in June. Consequently, Gwan-jeong Kim was suspected of being the chief prosecutor at the time as chief prosecutor at the time, and that he had made a direct deal with Lee Soo-gwon, the deputy prosecutor of the eastern district attorney’s office (now Ulsan District Attorney). As Chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, Chief Prosecutor Kim was assigned to the Eastern District Attorney’s Office last month. Prosecutor Lee Soo-kwon, who had experience in sending Roh Moo-hyun to the Blue House, was appointed official representative of the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office, as Dongbu District Prosecutor Koki-young died in Last April as Deputy Attorney General. Minister Chu promoted him to chief prosecutor in his first prosecution office in January. In response, former Deputy Prosecutor Kim Nam-woo said in his phone call: “It is difficult to bring up the case before retirement.” Chief Prosecutor Kim Kwan-jeong did not answer the phone.