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Cho Guk, Former Justice Minister Cho Kook, who was accused of neglecting the supervision of the former Deputy Mayor of Busan City at the time of his tenure as the chief clerk of the president’s civil jeong in 2017, will enter the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul to attend the trial on the 3rd. Newsis“The words of the witness are too contradictory” (first instance prosecutor)
“Why is it contradictory!” (Former Justice Minister Cho Kook)
On the 3rd, when former Justice Minister Cho Kook attended court as a witness and served as Chief Secretary for Presidential Civil Affairs in 2017, he refuted the suspected prosecution against former Deputy Mayor Yoo Jae-soo (the then Chief of the Office of Financial Policy of the Financial Services Commission). . So far, former Minister Cho has refused to testify in trials related to the family, including his wife Chung Gyeong-shim, a professor at Dongyang University, but answered all questions that day.
○ “We decided to stop inspection by meeting of three people”
Former Minister Cho made an active clarification by raising his voice in the prosecution newspaper during his trial held at the hearing of the 21st Division of the Criminal Settlement of the Seoul Central District Court (Chief Justice Kim Mi-ri). First, Cho emphasized that the suspension of the inspection of former Vice Mayor Yoo was a decision in a ‘three-person meeting’ held with former Secretary of the Presidential Civil Service Baek Won-woo and former Presidential Anti-Corruption Secretary Park Hyung-cheol. Former Minister Cho said: “At the round table in the chief civil jeong’s room, the two secretaries shared their views, and I decided and ordered.” However, former Secretary Park testified differently from former Minister Cho, saying, “I have never had a ‘three-person meeting'” at a trial on 23 last month. Deputy Mayor Yoo opined that strong measures such as requesting an investigation or repatriation to the auditor were required, but the inspection was stopped when former Minister Cho ordered, “We decided to complete the resignation in line with the resignation.” Based on the testimony of former Secretary Park, the prosecution asked Jeon Cho, “Isn’t it logical that the inspection appears to have stopped after the consultation?” Former Minister Cho said: “I will not answer because it is a very offensive question.”
○ “Impeachment on complaints by public officials after a ‘resolved bankruptcy’
Regarding the post-inspection measures, Cho said, “He instructed former Secretary Won-woo Baek to notify the Financial Services Commission of the opinion to accept the resignation of the former vice-mayor of Yu. The Financial Services Commission expected additional measures such as self-discipline. I thought I had to at least take my clothes off. “However, the prosecution stated,” At the time, former Secretary Baek told the Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission, Kim Yong-beom, that he was ‘almost authorized’ and He was not told to receive the resignation. Later, former Minister Cho said, “I did not speak directly to Vice President Kim. I don’t understand why you say that.”
After the cessation of supervision, former Deputy Mayor Yoo retired from the Financial Services Commission, which was the previous institution, and served as Senior Expert Member of the National Assembly and Deputy Mayor for Busan Economy.
Like Deputy Mayor Yoo, the prosecution asked if there were any cases of resignation without taking action such as requesting an investigation, even after confirming the receipt of money and other items in excess of 10 million won, including the receipt of bonds. golf and the payment of airline tickets. Former Minister Cho explained that he made a political decision in consideration of the situation where the anxiety of public officials increased due to the “ redemption clearance ” at that time.
Former Minister Cho said: “The important task in the second half of 2017 was ‘the clearance of redemption’, and there were cases where the civil servants of each department were at a disadvantage and the complaints and anxiety of the civil servants were quite high. I was concerned that the punishment could lead to problems as a ruling power, and I was quite sympathetic to that. “Accordingly, the prosecution said,” The deputy mayor of Yu Jeon is not the liquidation of red sanctions. “Is it necessary to consider the political position in the extremely simple personal corruption case? “
○ “Yoo Jae-soo’s supervision, less than a hundredth of the job”
At the time of the prosecution’s inspection in 2017, the prosecution accused former Minister Cho of not taking any action, despite the fact that members of the special inspection had been under pressure because members of the participating governments conducted a rescue campaign against the former vice mayor. Minister Cho acknowledged that he had received a report on the life-saving exercise at that time, saying, “There was a peculiarity that Yoo Jae-soo worked in the 1st Affiliate Office during the participatory government (Cheongwadae), and the two problems that the criminal passport staff did the life-saving exercise overlapped, so he ordered the former secretary to find out. I did.”
When the prosecution asked, “Did you know who was the person who did the campaign to save lives?”, Former Minister Cho said, “The Yoo Jae-soo case was less than one hundredth of the main office of the civil administration in the second half of 2017 “. “Prosecutors, police and NIS reform plans etc. He said,” I had a job that I was doing, so I couldn’t have a deep discussion about Jae-soo Yoo. “
Later, the prosecution said: “It is too contradictory. He pointed out that it is a contradiction to sign (participate) the former secretary of the Presidential Civil Service Baek Won-woo, since the situation is less than one hundred. “Why is that contradictory?” Former Minister Cho replied shouting and saying: “It is said that he continues to contradict himself, but I think it is an intentional confusion.”
The prosecution referred to the fact that Governor Kim Gyeong-soo had spoken with Gyeongnam Provincial Governor Kim Gyeong-soo (at the time a member of the National Assembly) twice during the impeachment period, and asked whether the Governor Kim had never received a preference request against the former deputy mayor. Former Minister Cho said: “The first was a call to security and the second was a long briefing because he wanted to know the proposal to reform the institutions of power,” he said.
Won-mo Yoo [email protected], Reporter Park Sang-jun
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