“The day 171 of my younger brother and the pressure of the statements”

Yoo Woo-sung, who was involved in the ‘Seoul City Public Official Spy Manipulation Case’, is contemplated after the judgment on the claim for damages against the Republic of Korea before the Central District Court from Seoul on the 12th. [뉴스1]

“It was unimaginable in the current situation.”

Deputy Judge Kim Ji-sook of the Seoul Central District Court, who ruled that the state should compensate 200 million won to Yu Woo-sung, a victim of the NIS spy manipulation case, and his younger brother Yu Gar- ryo, charged the NIS and the prosecution at the same time.

As for the NIS, which tampered with its immigration records to prove Yoo’s alleged violation of the National Security Act, it noted that “not only should it never happen in a democratic rule of law, it is unimaginable in the current situation.” The prosecution said: “It is difficult to escape criticism. I have betrayed trust in the criminal justice process,” despite the fact that the NIS recognized Yu Garyeo’s illegal detention situation, and did not take any special action and even prosecute retaliation. against Yoo Woo-sung.

The court’s judgment that day is a civil compensation judgment issued five years after the Supreme Court’s conviction of innocence passed by the Supreme Court in 2015. Deputy Justice Kim said: “Until the acquittal of the Supreme Court, the Mr. Yoo was suffering mental pain amid allegations that he was the family of a spy and his honor was seriously damaged. ” However, while calculating the amount of the damages, he added, “There were some circumstances that could be suspicious of the allegations of violation of the National Security Law regarding the identity and behavior of Mr. Yoo.”

At the time of the announcement of the results of the evidence tampering investigation for the ‘Seoul City Public Officials Espionage Case’ in 2014, the great swordsman Yoon Gap-geun was spotted. The prosecution prosecuted NIS employees involved in the fabrication of evidence. [중앙포토]

Yoo’s case, called ‘Seoul Civil Service Spy Case’, is the fact that the National Intelligence Service concealed a North Korean defector in 2011 that Mr. Yoo, who was living in Korea at the time, was from Chinese origin and received support from North Korean refugees in 2004. It began with a declaration that he was going to enter. At the time, Mr. Yoo was a Seoul-hired official in charge of North Korean defectors.

Subsequently, the NIS detained Yu Garyeo, who entered Korea, and revealed that she was hiding her Chinese status. To obtain an additional statement against Yu Woo-sung, Yu was detained in a solitary room with closed circuit television for 171 days without a warrant and an interview with a lawyer. In the process, there were convictions, pressure and insults, and Mr. Yoo declared that his brother, Yu Woo-sung, was a spy.

Yoo Woo-sung was arrested and tried for the first trial on his sister’s statement. However, the court in the first trial sentenced Yoo Woo-sung to innocent charges of violating the National Security Law, citing that Yoo’s statement was made illegally without prior notice of the right to refuse to testify. At that moment, the court turned into a sea of ​​tears after Yu Woo-sung and Yu Gar-yeo cried and mourned each other.

Yoo Woo-seong, a victim of the spy manipulation case, held a press conference last year in the press room of the Seoul Senior Prosecutor’s Office last year to indict the NIS investigator and prosecutor. The prosecution did not prosecute the investigating prosecutors at that time. [뉴스1]

An appeal trial was launched and the convicted NIS provided the prosecution with evidence of tampering with Yu Woo-sung’s entry and exit records from North Korea and China. It was revealed through Mr. Yoo’s attorney that this was different from the facts at the appeal hearing. A revocation occurred, in which NIS employees who participated in the tampering with evidence were processed into custody and sentenced to prison and parole.

The prosecutors who were in charge of the investigation and trial of Mr. Yoo were punished with one month’s suspension and one month’s salary, but they were not charged. The court’s ruling that day acknowledged responsibility for the country’s illegal investigation process.

The court ruled that the party where Mr. Yoo was convicted of violating the Currency Control Act, which the prosecution had previously released on probation after he was found not guilty under the National Security Act, also it was a retaliatory prosecution, that is, an illegal act.

In relation to this prosecution, in 2015 and 2016, the courts of first and second instance ruled ‘dismissal of the prosecution’ for abuse of the right to prosecute. The Supreme Court ruling has yet to be issued. Yoo Woo-sung met with reporters after winning the victory and said, “The punishment for the perpetrator who manipulated the spy case is still inadequate, and I hope that in the future, there will be no further damage from the tampering case. spies “.

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