尹 “The Attorney General is not subordinate to the Minister” … 與 “Take off your clothes and do politics”

Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol (left) talks with Deputy Prosecutor Cho Nam-gwan (right) and Shin Seong-sik, head of the anti-corruption force, at the National Prosecutor’s Office on the 22nd. Deputy Prosecutor Cho said in connection with the suspicion of the son of Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae, “a further investigation was ordered, but the Seoul East District Prosecutor’s Office has strongly requested that the reliability of the statement not change even if the supplementary investigation is carried out.” Deputy Prosecutor Cho served as the Attorney General of the Ministry of Justice during the Chu government last year. Reporter Kim Dong-joo [email protected]

“From a legal point of view, the Attorney General is not a subordinate of the Minister of Justice.”

On the morning of the 22nd, at the state affairs audit of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Legislative Judicial Committee of the National Assembly, Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol said this, criticizing the minister’s recent invocation of the right to direct the investigation. of Justice, Chu Mi-ae, saying it is “illegal”. General Yoon said: “If the president is a subordinate of the minister, it is far from the political neutrality of the prosecution and there is no need to create an office as attorney general.” Members of the ruling Democratic Party, along with the ruler, noted that Yun used the expression ‘subordinate’ and engaged in fierce battles with Yun.

○ The ruling party’s intensive attack on President Yoon’s ‘Mind’

Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Yong-min told Yoon: “The prosecution power was delegated to the Minister of Justice by the president, the head of the administration, and that is why the Prosecution Law was created. The affairs of the prosecution will be supervised by the Minister of Justice. “Representative Kim Jong-min of the same party also said:” It is a political act to untangle the President and Minister of Justice in such a way that ‘they are not your subordinates ‘and’ I will argue with people ‘. He criticized Yun. Regarding this, Yoon said, “If the attorney general is a subordinate of the Ministry of Justice, it is not necessary to have a president general.” “The great organization of swordsmen is an organization of personnel to assist the president. It is not necessary to execute it. “Yoon continued:” The president does not attend the inauguration and retirement ceremony of the minister. He said: “It is not a relationship between parents and children,” he said. He also added: “It was made for the political independence of investigation and prosecution, and the relationship between the president and the prosecutor is not. “Democratic Party lawmaker Song Ki-heon asked Yoon,” Is the relationship between the president and the prosecutor also subordinate? ” , General Yoon said, “I don’t usually use the word subordinate. (Minister Chu) said,” I disobey my name, “so that’s what I’m talking about to my subordinates.” Minister Chu said at the prosecution’s greeting in January this year: “I asked General Yoon for a personal opinion, but I disobeyed the order and did not send a greeting.”

Representative Je-won Jang said, “Why did the president use the word subordinate? The minister used the word rebellion. The evidence that Chu is the imperial minister is implicit in the word rebellion, and from the listeners’ point of view, it is possible to think that I am a subordinate. “

Yoon said: “If (the minister) directs the president in a specific case, we will accept it, but most people think that ‘the president should be left out’ is not stipulated in the Law of the Prosecutor’s Office.” According to article 8 of the Law on the Prosecution, the Minister of Justice is the supreme supervisor of the affairs of the prosecution, and generally directs and supervises the prosecutors, and can only command and supervise the attorney general in specific cases.

○ President Yoon “Illegal exclusion from the president’s command in certain cases”

Controversy over the appropriateness of Minister Chu’s recent exercise of command of the investigation also continued. Yoon said, “It is clear that it is illegal and unreasonable in terms of showing motives and purposes,” when Congressman Han-hong Yun asked for his opinion on Minister Chu’s exercise of the right of command of investigation. As for the former chairman of Lime Asset Management’s Star Mobility, Bong-Hyun Kim (46, incarcerated), who recently raised suspicions of lobbying prosecutors through a statement in prison, “You cannot say that he is a scammer. . It is not wise to deprive the president of command and refute the accusation with a single story. The power of the public to ask about the reasons why Minister Chu rebelled against the invocation of the command authority of the investigation, saying: “In the Lime case, President Yoon did not conduct a comprehensive investigation,” he said as ” slander”. “The word slander is the most decent word I can use,” he told the legislator’s question.

General Yoon said: “The power of command of the investigation should be done through the attorney general when the minister needs to give an opinion. Most lawyers point out that it is a violation of the Prosecution Law if they have the authority to exclude the command in a specific case. ” Yoon added, “It’s because the prosecutors didn’t speak openly, and I think everything is illegal at the front.”

Eunji Wizi [email protected], Reporter Seokjun Bae