“If you inspect Yun Seok-yeol’s special acting expenses, what about Chu Mi-ae?” … Judicial Committee of the Assembly, so I see both

Entry 2020.11.07 17:07 | Revision 2020.11.07 20:41

9th Grand Prosecutor’s Office, Ministry of Justice, Audit and Inspection Service for on-site verification
Participation of all members of the ruling and opposition judiciary
From Seok-yeol Yun’s Verification Request to Choi Jae-hyeong Choo
“It is difficult to see the details of the execution because it is money without a receipt”

On the 9th, the Legislative Judicial Commission of the National Assembly visited the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office as well as the Ministry of Justice and the Auditor to learn the details of the execution of special activities expenses (special expenses) in relation to the order of Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol to Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol on the 9th We plan to verify all documents.

According to various officials of the Judicial Committee of the National Assembly on the 7th, legislators from the ruling and opposition parties visit the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul at 2 p.m. on the 9th, and the Auditor in Jongno-gu , Seoul at 5 pm on the 9th to verify the execution details of the special performance expenses of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice auditor. An official of the Judicial Commission said: “The details of special expenses of the Ministry of Justice decided to be verified by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office with the data.”

Verification targets included performance standards, allocation documents, and expense details related to special expenses of these institutions from 2018 to October this year, as well as special expenses of affiliated institutions, prisons, immigration offices, etc., reassigned to the Ministry of Justice. The members of the Judiciary decided to receive reports from the Deputy Minister of Justice, Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Secretary General of the Audit and Inspection Service, read the documents and answer questions.

The reason why opposition legislators from the National Assembly judicial committee went to the on-site inspection was after Minister Chu ordered the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the allocation and execution of Yun’s special function expenses the day before. (6). The day before, the Minister of Justice said: “In relation to the execution of the special expenses of the attorney general, etc., the payment and allocation of the special expenses of each department of the prosecution at each level was compared with the year above, and more than 5 million won was paid or allocated to a specific prosecutor or a specific department once. I was instructed to check if there was anything. ”

The controversy over President Yoon’s use of special support costs was first raised by ruling party lawmakers in the Legislative Committee plenary session on the 5th. When Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Jong-min and others said : “The president gives a lot of special expenses to the prosecutor’s office with his close associates, and if he doesn’t like them, he gives them a little.” Minister Chu said, “The president is spending (special expenses) like pocket money.” Hit.

Minister Chu said, “I received a 9.4 billion won batch from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office this year and arbitrarily executed it, but I don’t know how it was spent,” he said. “The Central District Prosecutor’s Office said that the investigation team is experiencing difficulties because until recently no special expenses were paid.” When Euihim refuted that “confirmed, the special services expenses have all gone to the central district attorney”, Minister Chu stepped back saying “said”, but ordered the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the special expenses on the 6th.

Subsequently, the members of the Judicial Commission under the People’s Power confronted that “the special expenses of the Ministry of Justice are subject to control.” It is known that the Ministry of Justice received between 1 and 2 billion won in special expenses per year, and the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office paid more than 80 million won per month to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.

Former Tong Yang University professor Jin Joong-kwon said on Facebook: “Who was the person who ate at your daughter’s restaurant with political funds?” And he said, “You obviously don’t see it, so please reveal how you spent the secretary’s special expenses.” Said. Professor Jin said, “At that time (Minister Chu) made a sophistry to the question, ‘Why didn’t you pay the money to eat at your daughter’s restaurant?’ “(Minister Chu) said that during the advance inspection, there was also a quantum mechanics situation where the card was used in a meat shop at the Nonsan Training Center, where the card was far from him.

This appears to be directed at the “suspicions of illegal use of political funds” raised by the Popular Force in September against Minister Chu. At that time, Representative Cho Su-jin, the people’s power, spent a total of 21 times from January 2014 to August 2015 at a restaurant in Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, run by his eldest daughter. When he entered the Nonsan Training Center, he claimed that Minister Chu’s business expense card, who went to the military base in Paju Munsan, was paid for at a Korean beef restaurant near Nonsan.

However, it will be difficult to verify the details of the execution of the special function expenses by Minister Chu and President Yoon during the on-site inspection of the special function expenses for the ruling and opposition judges on the 9th. of the Judicial Committee said: “Special expenses are money that is executed without receipts”, and said: “It will be the level of capturing the size of the execution of special expenses by the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office instead of who spent how and where. ”