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Justice Minister Chu Miae (photo = reporter Yoon Chang-won / photo material)
The prosecution, which is investigating the suspicion of the ‘preferential leave’ of the son of Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, 27, is accelerating horribly after eight months of investigation. The prosecution summoned Seo and other key officials in a row, followed by the hospital where Seo had visited, followed by the seizure and search at the Ministry of National Defense.
The prosecution is reported to have established internal policy to conclude the investigation before the start of the Chuseok holiday at the end of this month. The key is whether the current Minister of Justice, Minister Chu, will investigate and the possibility of punishing Mr. Seo.
According to CBS Nocut News coverage on the 17th, the 1st Division of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Deok-gon) is analyzing 1,500 transcript files that were secured through the Ministry of Defense seizure and search on day 15.
The transcript, which was said to have been deleted in the first place, was found by the prosecution on the main server of the Ministry of Defense. The prosecution is known to analyze files recorded before and after June 14, 2017 (the last day of the first sick leave), which is believed to have received a complaint call.
The point is to find out if the content of the phone call was limited to a simple complaint or inquiry, or if there was a statement of external pressure. This is the reason why the analysis suggests that the transcript file secured by the Ministry of Defense may be turned into a ‘smoking gun’ (a decisive basis) to resolve the suspicions surrounding Seo.
The prosecution’s investigation team is reported to have established an internal policy to conclude before the Chuseok holiday at the end of this month. This is true in the sense that there is no little criticism of the ‘procrastination investigation’ from abroad, and the period of dispatch of personnel such as prosecutors who were recruited by the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office earlier this month is of one month.
Prosecutors investigating suspected military vacation, the son of Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, head to the Ministry of National Defense annex after completing a seizure search at the Ministry of Defense General Civil Affairs Office, Yongsan -gu, Seoul on the 15th. (Photo = Reporter Lee Han-hyung)
The prosecution recently announced the suspicion with Mr. Seo himself, the soldier on duty who first raised the suspicion, and a support officer who received calls directly from former deputies Choi Mo and Choi, who were noted to have made several calls to the military base regarding the extension of Mr. Seo’s license. Captain) and other key players were summoned one after another.
In addition, the Samsung Medical Center and the Yangju Hospital of the Armed Forces were seized and searched for documents related to Seo’s sick leave, and the Ministry of Defense and the Army Headquarters of Gyeryong University were also investigated for clear up the couple’s suspected phone complaints.
All that remains is an investigation by the incumbent attorney general, Minister Chu. There is growing interest in whether the prosecution will directly investigate the accused, the accused and how it will be done.
Minister Chu denies all the accusations. Regarding the assistant’s call to the military unit, he subtly changed his word on 1, saying “I didn’t call”, and on 14, saying: “There is no fact that I told you to make a call.”
On the 17th of the Jilmu government of the National Assembly, he and her husband said “I have never filed a complaint” about the “call for complaints” after the Defense Ministry document exploded.
The day before, representative Shin Won-sik even verified the anonymous complaint and raised additional suspicions that “a woman called about the extension of Mr. Seo’s vacation and the name was spelled as Minister Chu’s husband,” he confronted. to Minister Chu. Managed. In this regard, Seo’s lawyer, Hyun Geun-taek, dismissed it as “a malicious offense.”
(Photo = Reporter Park Jong-min / Photo material)
In this way, although Minister Chu himself has clearly drawn a line for all suspicions, some analyze that the legal community will not be free from criticism of the ‘bad investigation’ if the prosecution, which is suspicious of the impartiality of the investigation itself, it closes the case without a direct investigation from Minister Chu. .
However, a lawyer for Seocho-dong said, “It seems unlikely that the unprecedented situation of summoning the current Minister of Justice to the prosecutor’s office building will actually happen.” It is an analysis that it will not be easy to summon the incumbent minister unless the prosecution finds out the circumstances in which Minister Chu has intervened to extend the license in any way.
Of course, a “written survey”, “visitor survey” or “third-party inquiry” card is also valid. In connection with the BBK suspicion in 2008, a special prosecutor met Lee Myung-bak, then president-elect, from around Seoul, and investigated the prosecutor’s office, which was investigating Seongwan-jong’s list in 2015. , and Cheong Wa Dae officials and ruling party lawmakers who suspected of receiving money and property were investigated in writing.
