The Ministry of Justice to raise the prosecutor’s office in response to the indictment … On the front line

Entry 2020.10.30 06:00

2 ~ 3 more prosecutors in charge of the investigation in the prosecution
Optimus and Lime are likely in full swing in the Channel A case

The Ministry of Justice has doubled the number of prosecutors in the inspector’s office. The Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, has issued inspection orders in the Optimus and Lime Asset Management cases and the Channel A cases, and the Ministry of Justice is significantly expanding its inspection organization to carry this out. Internal discontent within the prosecution service is increasing as indictments are subsequently sent to the prosecutor’s office in the Ministry of Justice.

According to the legal community, on the 30th, the Ministry of Justice recently recruited a review prosecutor to take charge of the investigation at the prosecutor’s office. The Justice Ministry said that “a small number of staff were assigned,” but according to the legal profession, it was reported that around two were recruited.

Initially, three prosecutors, including Park Eun-jeong, were assigned to the prosecutor’s office of the Ministry of Justice. Minister Chu, while greeting the Ministry of Justice earlier this year, changed all the prosecutors who were previously in the prosecutor’s office. In addition to the inspector’s office, two new prosecutors joined the office. In addition to the prosecutor in charge of the 29th Judicial Research and Training Institute, Park, two prosecutors were assigned who could conduct front-line investigations to strengthen the work of the prosecution.

In addition to this, the Ministry of Justice is said to have been joined with the prosecutor’s office by two more reviewers. In addition to the office of the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Investigation of Crimes of Women and Children, known the day before, there are more prosecutors sent to the Prosecutor’s Office. It means that the number of prosecutors who were in charge of the investigation has doubled.

There are voices of criticism from within the prosecution against the measures of the Ministry of Justice. Lee Bok-hyun, head of the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office, told Eprus on the 29th that “Yesterday, I heard the news that the chief prosecutor of the Department of Investigation of Crimes of Women and Children of the US Office will be to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice “. “I have a question about whether the librarians are trying to suffer because I took them to the Ministry of Justice.”

Chief Prosecutor Lee compared this situation to Choi Soon-sil Insa Nongdan during the Park Geun-hye administration. He is a prosecutor who directly investigated the government of the Park Geun-hye government.

Recently, Minister Chu is pulling out the inspection card every day as the level of pressure on Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol increases. Minister Chu had ordered a joint inspection on prosecutors and opposition corruptions stemming from the suspension of the bailout of Lime Asset Management on the 22nd. On the 27th, an inspection against the acquittal was ordered from the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in the first case of the ‘Optimus Incident’. At that time, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office was Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol.

The prospect of inspecting General Yoon is becoming a reality as he is not only pressing words, but also recruiting prosecutors who will actually conduct the inspections.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice obtained data on the suspected attempted coercion by former Channel A reporter Lee Dong-jae from the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office on the 28th. The Ministry of Justice is conducting an inspection against prosecutor Han Dong-hoon about the conspiracy allegations with the former reporter. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, ordered by Minister Chu on the 27th, is also expected to see large-scale inspections sooner or later in the Optimus case acquittal in early 2018.

It is the appearance of Minister Chu using the measures to strengthen the direct inspection of the Ministry of Justice against the indictment prepared by the former Minister of Justice Cho Kook. According to the prosecution regulations of the Ministry of Justice, the prosecution has the main authority to inspect the prosecution and the Ministry of Justice has the second supervisory authority. However, former Minister Cho revised the prosecution regulations of the Ministry of Justice to inform the Minister of Justice in case of misconduct within the prosecution service and to expand the scope of the direct prosecution inspection.