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On the 16th, Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu will give a joint briefing on the Third Fair Economy Law in the meeting room of the Seoul Government Complex. Yunhap news
At the beginning of last month, when Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu (56) was serving as a lawyer, he got drunk and cursed a taxi driver and caught a fatal victim, but the police considered it a simple assault and put an end to the internal affairs.
According to the Seocho Police Station in Seoul on the 19th, the incident began when Vice Minister Lee assaulted a taxi driver for waking up asleep in a taxi early last month. After arriving at Department A in Seocho-dong, where the taxi driver had been, he made a call to 112 when he was frustrated to wake up this vice minister. The taxi driver told the Seocho Police Box officer that he had been dispatched at the time: “ After arriving at the apartment the passengers told me about, when I woke up a passenger who was sleeping after drinking, he spoke abusively and grabbed my limb and hit.
The next day, however, the taxi driver agreed with Vice Minister Lee and revealed that he did not want punishment. Consequently, the police applied the crime of simple aggression, an unintentional sanction, and put an end to internal affairs without criminal charges.
Police “They stop me and the victim does not want to be punished, so the internal investigation ends”
If the driver of a vehicle in circulation is attacked or threatened, he is subject to an aggravated sanction regardless of the intention of the victim in accordance with the Aggravated Sanction Law for specific crimes. Regarding the application of a simple assault charge instead of the Special Law, a police officer said: “If you park or stop a car in a place where there is no fear of disturbing the safety and order of public traffic in 2017 , he’s not driving. “We made a decision in the sense of” “and said,” We apply this and conclude the internal investigation. ” He added: “At the time the incident occurred, I had no idea who he was because he was before he was appointed deputy minister.”
He noted that “I should have faced simple attacks after being deployed.”
However, some point out that there is a problem with the police handling the case by closing internal affairs, even if it is a simple assault. Seung Jae-hyun, a researcher at the Korea Criminal Policy Research Institute, said: “In order to end internal affairs, there must be no violence. Even if a simple assault charge was applied, not a special price law, it is They received 112 reports first, and since it was a fact that the taxi driver was assaulted, the case was filed first. After doing this, it is correct to treat it as ‘no public prosecution.’
The JoongAng Ilbo tried to contact him to hear Lee’s position, but no contact could be established. The Justice Ministry said: “This was the day before Lee’s appointment.”
Vice Minister Lee and Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol serve on the disciplinary committee
Vice Minister Lee was a former judge and worked at the Korea Law Research Association, which is classified as a progressive group within the court. In August 2017, just after the inauguration of Moon Jae-in’s administration, he was selected as the head of the Office of Legal Affairs for the first time as an outsider not involved in the prosecution. After resigning from public office in April this year, after resigning from public office, President Moon Jae-in appointed Lee the next day, when Deputy Justice Minister Koki-young expressed his appreciation for the celebration. of the Ministry of Justice Prosecutor’s Disciplinary Committee on the 1st. Vice Minister Lee participated in President Yun’s disciplinary committee as an ex officio member.
Reporters Woorim Lee and Haejun Lee [email protected]
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