Yoon Seok-yeol’s suspicion of leaving the nuclear power plant ‘the day the knife was removed.

Seoul Central District Attorney General Lee Seong-yoon (right) and Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol (left) [뉴스1·연합뉴스]

In response to various suspicions surrounding Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol’s wife, Kim Gun-hee, Seoul Central District Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon announced a high intensity investigation. In these cases, the investigation team of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office is independently in charge of the investigations without the direction of President Yoon, due to the initiation of the investigation command by the Minister of Justice, Chu Mi-ae. .

On the 4th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office assigned the suspicion of the exhibition agency ‘Covana Contents’ of the exhibition agency of Yoon’s wife Kim to the second anti-corruption investigation department (director Jung Yong-hwan). The cases of manipulation of the German Motors share price and the sale of Deutsche Financial shares were assigned to the second part of the anti-corruption investigation.

Yoon’s wife entrusted the investigation of the suspicion to the special investigation department that has dealt with cases of corruption and large-scale corruption. Cobana’s case of suspicion began with the suspicion that the number of sponsors for the exhibition increased when Yoon’s wife, Kim Gun-hee, executive director of Covana Contents, was nominated as a candidate for the impeachment in June last year.

Representative Kim and his mother, Mr. Choi, are also under suspicion of involvement in the 2010 imported car dealer Deutsche Motors’ share price manipulation case. In September, CEO Kang-wook Choi of the Open Democratic Party and civic groups collected these suspicions and filed a complaint with the prosecution.

The case has been handled by the Central District Attorney’s Office, Penal Section 6 (Director Park Soon-bae). However, the prosecution explained that based on the results of the recent Korea Exchange analysis, it was separately recorded as an investigation and distributed to the second anti-corruption investigation. Instead of the redistribution party, it launched a large-scale investigation once again using the “separate registration” form.

On the 5th, the prosecution began a seizure search against the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy for ‘manipulation of the economic evaluation of Wolseong Unit 1’. [연합뉴스]

Within the prosecution, there is a reaction that both the timing of the dividend and the department are “strange.” This is because it is extremely unusual to assign to a special department after more than a month of indictment.

Consequently, it was said that there was strong disagreement between the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Lee Seong-yoon and Jung Yong-hwan, over the proposal to assign the accusations to the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division. Jeong, who reviewed the allegations, is said to have indicated that he refused to split the case. The view was expressed that there are many people who are supporting large-scale financial investigations like Optimus, so there is not enough manpower to invest in the case. Consequently, it was noted that it is rare to assign the Department of Anti-Corruption Investigation only by filing complaints from civic groups without a basic investigation of the parties.

It is also mentioned that the timing overlapped with the general prosecution seizure and search related to the early closure of Wolseong Unit 1, symbolizing the post-nuclear policy of the Moon Jae-in government. On that day, the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office conducted a search for seizures at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and Korea Gas Corporation.

Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae answers questions from lawmakers at the plenary session of the Legislative Judicial Council held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the 5th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek

In response, Minister Chu said in the National Assembly, “the political president is conducting bias and over-investigations to attack and shake the government.” It’s just asking, ”he said.

In this regard, a prosecutor said: “The fact that on the day of the nuclear investigation, the fact that the case of the president’s wife was distributed is ‘kick out President Yoon’ and ‘ride on the water.’ It is rare that the investigation is carried out in the company, ”he raised his voice.

Currently, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office ▶ Suspicion of sponsoring Covana content by President Yoon’s wife Kim Gun-hee ▶ Suspicion of stock price manipulation related to Deutsche Motors and preferential treatment of shares of Deutsche Financial ▶ Suspicion of the operation of an illegal nursing facility by President Yoon’s mother-in-law ▶ Yoon Woo-jin, brother of prosecutor Yoon Dae-jin The former head of the Yongsan tax office is investigating Muma’s suspicion.

Reporters Suppl Kim and Yujin Jung [email protected]