The list of members and the details of their activities are ‘private’ … Controversy over the 尹 disciplinary committee

Enter 2020.11.27 10:21

The prosecutor’s disciplinary committee (disciplinary committee), which will determine the fate of the attorney general, will be held next week, but the composition of the members is shrouded in a veil, leading to criticism that it is a ‘discipline blind ‘. Two prosecutors who will participate in the disciplinary committee are expected to be appointed by Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae.

According to the legal community on the 27th, the Ministry of Justice is finalizing the formation of a disciplinary committee to attend the disciplinary deliberation against President Yun. Under the provision that a person requesting disciplinary action cannot attend the disciplinary committee, Minister Chu falls into the disciplinary committee. On behalf of Minister Chu, Vice Minister of Justice Koki-young is expected to serve as president.

However, with the exception of the senior vice minister, no information was known about who participated as a disciplinary committee. The disciplinary committee is made up of the Minister of Justice and the Vice Minister of Justice, two prosecutors appointed by the Minister of Justice and three external members, such as lawyers and law professors. Once appointed, the three external members are active for three years, and the currently appointed external members are known as those who were appointed during the days of Park Sang-sang and Cho Kook as a former Minister of Justice.

There has been a constant demand to reveal the status of the disciplinary committee’s functioning and the list of members. According to the legal community, in the second quarter of this year, a civic group asked the Ministry of Justice to reveal information about the status of the 2012-2019 disciplinary commission. However, the Justice Ministry made a decision of nondisclosure and said that it “will interfere with the guarantee of fairness and without problems in the activities of the committee.”

Unlike the prosecution and discipline committee, the judicial discipline committee and the attorney discipline committee have relatively many details of their activities and the list of members. The Ministry of Justice organizes and discloses the activities of its administrative agency committees every month, and the disciplinary committee of the bar association discloses the details of the activities in detail, but the prosecution and discipline committee does not even reveal whether it is carried out. out at all.

As the disciplinary committee operates in the dark, it is not easy to check whether the decision of the disciplinary committee has been made correctly. Even recently, a prosecutor who was removed from the disciplinary committee won an administrative lawsuit to disclose disciplinary information.

It is interesting to know who will be included in the two prosecutors who will be appointed by Minister Chu as members of the disciplinary committee. There is also the possibility that there is a high possibility that Minister Chu will appoint a prosecutor with a clear political color to the disciplinary committee to enforce the decision to remove Yun from office. Some even say that people like Im Eun-jeong, the policy researcher for the prosecution service, and Jin Hye-won, the deputy prosecutor for the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office, can be named.

An official from the legal profession said: “Most of the disciplinary committees are ‘Chumi-ae people’, and they will not be able to avoid criticism that it is a sloping playground.”