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After former Star Mobility CEO Kim Bong-hyun, a key figure in the Lime Asset Management crisis, exposed suspected lobbying against prosecutors and opposition politicians, the Justice Ministry and the prosecution collided head-on. .
The Justice Ministry raised the suspicion that Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol had not investigated properly, and the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office strongly opposed this as slander.
Connect to the relief car leaving the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. Reporter Jo Sung-ho!
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae and Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol are in conflict again.
Wasn’t that the beginning of the content of former CEO Kim Bong-hyun’s “entrance statement”?
[기자]The Ministry of Justice sent a text message to journalists around 2:00 p.m. yesterday.
It was revealed that for three days starting on the 16th, when former Rep. Kim Bong-hyun was exposed in prison, he had conducted a personal inspection investigation at the South Seoul Detention Center where Kim was imprisoned.
The prosecutor’s and investigator’s entertainment, misconduct, and suspected billion-dollar lobbying against opposition politicians from the prosecutor’s office, Kim said, but confirmed that the investigation was not done properly.
At the same time, Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol mentioned that there were suspicions that he did not conduct a thorough investigation, unlike passport staff, even after receiving specific reports of abuse from opposition politicians and prosecutors.
He added that the Ministry of Justice is reviewing who and how to investigate these complaints separately.
[앵커]The Justice Ministry even raised suspicions that Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol did not properly investigate allegations of misconduct.
The prosecution refuted it right away, right?
[기자]An hour and 20 minutes after the announcement of the position of the Ministry of Justice, the Spokesperson for the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office also entered.
After receiving reports of complaints from politicians related to the Lime case, especially politicians related to the opposition, he ordered a thorough investigation.
The ‘prosecutor’s suspicion’ was said to have first been made known through media reports on the 16th.
He immediately ordered a swift and thorough investigation, including the investigation of former CEO Kim Bong-hyun, to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, saying that yesterday (17), he ordered again considering the seriousness of the matter.
The announcement of the Ministry of Justice strongly opposed being a defamatory scheme against the Attorney General, which was not based on any fact in the facts.
Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was very fond of talking about the problems of the prosecution, also opened his mouth.
In an interview with the media, the suspicion that the president’s investigation was insufficient is said to be an irrelevant story, and Yoon is said to have responded with an irate response, asking why he crushed the investigation.
Within the prosecution, there are also complaints that the announcement by the Ministry of Justice is a false disclosure and that the people who reported it to the media should be investigated.
[앵커]The opinions of the Ministry of Justice, the prosecution and the two parties are extremely varied.
Are there reports on the actual status of the investigation?
[기자]After all, this is what the battle for truth looks like.
Regarding the suspicion of opposition politicians, the prosecution explained that an unprecedented investigation is underway after the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, which was in charge of the Lime investigation in May, informed the President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Yoon ordered a thorough investigation.
Song Nam-hyun, a former Southern District Attorney’s Office, who led the investigation at the time, also reported the details to YTN in a phone call with YTN.
He said he knew nothing about prosecutors and investigators.
However, how the related report was made has not been confirmed.
At that time, the head of the power and anti-corruption department was Shim Jae-cheol, the attorney general of the Ministry of Justice, who was the closest assistant to Minister Cho Mi-ae.
At the time, an official from the command line of the anti-corruption and power department disputed that there were many reports about the abuse of passport politicians over the phone with YTN, but that no reports were received about the opposition and that the investigation was not carried out. finished.
If the line of command for the great sword was not passed according to this explanation, it is possible that the reports and instructions were made through weekly reports in which the attorney general meets in person with the attorney general to discuss the issues.
[앵커]The Ministry of Justice launched an inspection on the revelation of former CEO Kim Bong-hyun in prison.
The investigation also seems inevitable, but how will it proceed?
[기자]As mentioned above, the Ministry of Justice said it would review the issue and method of the investigation separately from the prosecution.
Even if he doesn’t mean what to do at the moment, it is interpreted that he is trying to exclude President Yoon from the command line as he discussed the responsibility of President Yoon Suk-yeol.
The formation of a special investigation team excluding President Yoon and the formation of a third investigation team other than the Seoul South District Prosecutor’s Office are discussed.
There is a ‘special prosecutor’ system that investigates the misconduct of prosecutors without informing the attorney general, but it is an observation that the reality is low in that if Yoon is appointed, Minister Chu must run again.
The problem is that the Department of Justice does not have specific authority to intervene in the investigation.
This is because the Minister of Justice can only command the attorney general in a specific case.
Due to this, there are observations that Minister Chu may again exercise command of an investigation after the case of ‘Channel A suspected of coercion.
If the Department of Justice becomes involved in an investigation in any way, the confrontation between the prosecution and the Department of Justice is likely to escalate.
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