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Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae attended a comprehensive national audit of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the Auditor of the Legal and Judicial Committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on 26, listening to questions from legislators and wearing glasses. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae said, “I will supervise Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was then the district attorney,” regarding the removal of some charges by the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in the Optimus case in 2019, while the chief prosecutor in charge published a direct rebuttal.
According to prosecutors, on the 27th, Kim Yoo-cheol (51st, 29th Judicial Research and Training Institute), director of Wonju, published a post on Eprus, the internal communication network of the prosecution, about the situation he was in. in charge of the Optimus case when he was serving as the seventh head of the criminal department of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in 2019. “There is a problem with the merits” to the supervisory authority, the Ministry of Science, ICT and ICT ( Ministry of Science and Technology) by Mr. A, who was in a dispute with the management of Optimus Asset Management, through the explanatory data on four pages of A4 paper. Under the direction of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Korea Radio Promotion Agency received an inquiry request. “
Direct rebuttal of the chief prosecutor in charge of the Optimus Radio Agency case
The case was assigned to the Seventh Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in October 2018, and the investigation was conducted, but the investment was used within the scope of not contrary to the investment proposal, and there was no damage to the property of the Radio Agency. A provision has been made. However, the content of the investigation request included some charges that “ the funds from the Radio Promotion Agency were used to acquire insolvent companies such as Seongji Construction ”, and the investigation team identified the investigation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the South District in Seoul and delivered the investigation report.
Chief Kim Ji-cheong refuted the suspicion of a reduction in the investigation raised in a recent state audit. He argued: “It is difficult for the criminal department to invest a large amount of investigative power in a situation where the investigating client, the Radio Agency, ‘there was no problem as a result of the self-investigation and the Financial Supervision Service.’ , and ‘I do not know exactly the details of the charges stated in the investigation request.’ did.
The Central District Prosecutor’s Office, which was primarily responsible for police command cases, was at that time, with only 6 and up to 13 prosecutors per department. Seven of the detectives had seven. On the other hand, the Special Department (currently the Anti-Corruption Investigation Department) under the 3rd Deputy General Manager, which directly recognizes and investigates allegations of lobbying in political relations and financial investigations, had up to 18 prosecutors per department. Another acting prosecutor noted that “according to the ruling party’s assertion, the manager at the time should have known and prevented Optimus’ harm before the FSS investigation began.”
Together with Democratic Party legislator Park Ju-min, at the National Assembly Audit of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Legislative Judicial Commission held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the afternoon of the 22nd, Attorney General Yoon Seok- yeol shows a photo of Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae from the prosecution’s yearbook and investigates. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Regarding the part that Minister Chu pointed out that “a kind of multi-stage financial fraud, you only need to trace the account,” he said, “the statement of the investigating client is not clear and there is a lack of evidence, so there is the possibility of a seizure and search warrant being issued as an account follow-up. ” It was meager. “He then argued that” finding seizures and tracking the accounts of financial institutions, such as asset management companies, can cause unintended harm, such as the bankruptcy of affiliated companies, by drastically reducing their credibility in the market. financial”.
“The Optimus case was fixed in October 2018 and it was dropped in May 2019, and it was more than 7 months, and it was wrong for Yoon Seok-yeol to say, ‘We haven’t received a report.’ He also refuted the point made. Chief Kim said: “It was a case that was processed in three months, except for four months of the Central District Prosecutor’s Office and the period of command, so it is not a violation of the pre-decision rule.” The case was handled by the First Deputy Chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.
The attorney general refutes “The investigation period is not 7 months, but 3 months”
Regarding the allegation that the reason for the non-prosecution was notified to the Korea Radio Agency only recently, one year and five months after the case was handled, “The reason for the non-prosecution prepared by the investigator and investigator it’s detailed on page 14. I don’t know what it is, ”he posed a question.
Regarding the point that the case was handled lightly because attorney Gyu-cheol Lee, Optimus’s advisor and attorney at the time, was working with President Yoon on Park Young-soo’s Special Prosecution Team, said: “I have never met a lawyer and I have not spoken to a lawyer. There is no fact that the deputy director has been informed or instructed ”. Lawyer Gyu-cheol Lee also said in a phone call with JoongAng Ilbo, “I never met Kim Yoo-cheol.”
Reporters Minsang Kim and Yujin Jung [email protected]
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