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Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae accepted the resignation of Seoul South District Prosecutor Park Soon-cheol, who expressed his gratitude on the 22nd and appointed Lee Jeong-soo as Chief of Planning and Coordination of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office (pictured), as a successor to work immediately. The Ministry of Justice took unusually swift personnel action when the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating a 1.6 trillion won Lime Asset Management case, could lose its head and shake. On the 22nd, when Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol refuted Lime’s insolvency allegations at the Head of State Administration, it is interpreted that the Ministry of Justice also showed willingness to break through.
On the 23rd, the Ministry of Justice said: “To ensure that there are no gaps in the independent investigation and command system in the case related to Lime, which has raised public suspicions today, Park Soon-cheol accepted the dismissal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Nambu District. I did it. ”
Furthermore, he added, “Minister Chu requested that the Seoul South District Prosecutor’s Office be independent from the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office and politicians, focusing on the new prosecutor’s office, and that it promptly engage in a thorough investigation of the truth.” . This is just one day after Prosecutor Park expressed his thanks. On the 22nd, the prosecutor’s office posted a message entitled ‘Position on the lime incident’ on the internal network of the prosecution, Eprus, and expressed its thanks saying: “The policy covered the prosecution.”
The new Nambu District Prosecutor’s Office is from Seoul and graduated from Namgang High School, Seoul National University Department of Justice, and Yonsei University School of Law. After passing the bar exam in 1994, he began his career as a prosecutor at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutor Lee, who was appointed as the chief prosecutor at the time of the prosecutor’s first salute after taking office in January, was posted to the National Intelligence Service from 2017 to 2018, and served as legal adviser to the head of the Intelligence Service. National and as a prosecutor in the head of the current government. .
The new District Attorney General said, “I feel very responsible for assuming the position of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office in a severe period.” “The case currently under investigation can be strictly and immediately investigated in accordance with laws and principles, so that public suspicions can be resolved. I will do my best to achieve it. ”
Meanwhile, former Star Mobility president Kim Bong-hyun, related to the Lime case, did not attend a trial on charges of embezzlement. As social attention was paid to the two exposures in prison, there are observations that former President Kim would have felt a mental burden.
The 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Southern District Law (Deputy Judge Shin Hyeok-jae) decided to proceed with a trial on charges such as embezzlement under Kim’s Special Weighted Economic Punishment Law, but delayed the date due to the sudden absence of President Kim. Deputy Judge Shin Hyeok-jae said: “30 minutes ago, Mr. Bong-Hyun Kim presented a statement of reasons for the non-attendance,” and asked former President Kim’s lawyers and the guards at the South Detention Center of Seoul on the reasons for filing.
It is known that on the same day, former President Kim delivered a letter of reason for non-attendance to the prison guard, indicating that he would not attend the trial because he was unwell. Mr. Kim’s lawyer who attended the court said: “This is not correct, but it is indicated that it was due to extreme mental stress.” The court will determine that the reason for Kim’s absence is unjustified and will issue a job offer.
Previously, former President Kim revealed suspicions related to prosecutors and opposition politicians through two prison statements.
Meanwhile, the court sentenced the court to five years in prison for former Shinhan Financial Investment PBS division team leader Shim Mo, who was brought to trial on charges of accepting money or other valuables in exchange for investing in a company listed on KOSDAQ in connection with the Lime case.
Lee Sang-ho, the former director of passenger finance for Suwon, who attended the trial of former Busan Saha-eul district chairman of the Democratic Party, held at the Seoul Southern District Law, said: “Former President Kim called on the media to send photos taken in the living room with Lee. ” Testified.
Mr. Kim’s testimony shakes former President Kim’s credibility that the prosecution induces the statement through a coercive and coercive investigation. On the 16th, former President Kim said at the former president’s trial: “If the prosecution did not proceed according to the framework prepared by the prosecution, it appeared that it would suffer disadvantages.”
The prosecution is known to have specified past and current investigators in connection with the allegations of lobbying at the prosecution alleged by former President Kim. It is reported that the Southern District Prosecutor’s Office recently seized and searched the offices of former Investigative Prosecutor A in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and obtained data such as hard drives for work PCs.
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