‘Honesty or return?’ Yoon Seok-yeol to be questioned tomorrow about stay of execution

Entry 2020.12.21 17:23

The cross-examination of the request for stay of execution, which was submitted by Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol in opposition to the two-month disciplinary action on suspension, will take place. Results may appear as early as the day of questioning, but there is a possibility that the results will be released after the Christmas holidays, as there is no urgent reason to conclude.

According to law enforcement officials on the 21st, the questioning date for President Yoon’s request for suspension of disciplinary application will be held at the Seoul Administrative Court on the 22nd at 2 p.m. The administrative division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Judge Hong Soon-wook) is in charge of the trial, and the questioning is expected to take longer than the questioning for the suspension of the exclusion of duties held on the 30th of last month. On the 30th of last month, the interrogation of the request for suspension of the exclusion of functions ended in about an hour.

At the time, the exclusion of duties was a measure imposed by the Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, on President Yoon, but President Moon Jae-in finally approved the suspension of two months of discipline. It is a matter on which the court must be more cautious. Given that there is a high possibility that a final judgment will not be reached until President Yun’s term (July 2021), the lead lawsuit seeking cancellation of the disposition suspension will determine whether Yoon will be able to serve as attorney general for now. . It is also a burden on the court.

Because of this, there is also the possibility that the court will decide later than expected. The last request for suspension of the work exclusion came out on December 1, the day after the date of the interrogation. The conclusion of the request for stay of disciplinary enforcement is likely to come before the Christmas holidays, but within and outside the legal community, there is also the possibility that it will come out on the 28th or 29th after the Christmas holidays.

Yoon and Minister Chu are expected to face a tight adjustment on whether the two-month disciplinary punishment for suspension is “irreparable harm.” General Yoon’s side insisted that Mr. Yoon’s absence during the prosecution’s salutes in January will disrupt major investigations, including investigations into nuclear power plants. In fact, in the case of an investigation of a nuclear power plant that was slow in the state of exclusion from President Yoon’s job, arrest warrants were also passed for the main suspects the day after Yoon returned to his duties.

President Yoon’s side submitted an explanation of the evidence and an additional increase in the morning of that day, and then submitted an additional document to the court around 4:40 p.m. that day. He’s busy moving even the day before the questioning to demonstrate the injustice of the willingness to honesty.

On the other hand, Minister Chu argues that the two-month suspension is difficult to see as irreparable losses, since President Yoon’s term is approximately 7 months. Some point out that President Moon directly approved the disciplinary action, but if the court were to revoke it, the instability of the government organization would intensify.

The dispute over the legality of the inspection and disciplinary procedures against President Yun is expected to be fierce. Yoon argues that the composition and procedures of the disciplinary committee were illegal. Yoon pointed out the disciplinary committee’s procedural issues and resigned from his final opinion statement.

On the other hand, Minister Chu argues that not only the inspection and disciplinary action were carried out legally, but also that procedural legitimacy was an issue in the main lawsuit, which was not an issue in the request for suspension of execution. .