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Candidate Oh-soo Kim says he has gone through legal proceedings, but controversy still remains over whether it is appropriate to take over the Lime case as a lawyer after several months of resigning from the position of the vice minister of justice.



Reporter Lee Hyun-young pointed out those issues.



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It was in February of last year that the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office began an investigation into Lime Fund.



Candidate Oh-soo Kim, then Vice Minister of Justice, retired in April, two months later.



And in September of the same year, Candidate Kim took over two cases of Woori Bank related to Lime Fund as an advisory attorney for a law firm.



The first controversy is whether it violates the mandate restrictions under the attorney law.



This is because he took over the Lime-related case five months after he retired from the position of the Deputy Attorney General, where he received reports of major prosecutors' investigations.



According to the Lawyer's Law, a prosecutor cannot assume a charge for one year from the date of retirement in cases handled one year before retirement.



Even if the Deputy Attorney General received a report, the issue was whether it would be included in the case, and Candidate Kim dismissed that he had never received a report on the Lime case.



[Of jeonjuhye / national forces Senator: Did you receive at the time of Justice Undersecretary report (for the lime investigation)?]



[Gimohsu / Attorney General Candidate: Is reporting system of internal justice.]



[Jeonjuhye / the national forces Rep: So did you get Didn't you take it?]



[Kim Osu/Prosecutor General Candidate: No report was received.] In the



legal profession, opinions that the legal resolution is possible if other testimony comes from within the prosecution related to reporting, and that even if a report is received, it cannot be considered as a case treatment.



The defense contents of candidate Kim's defense are also subject to controversy in the future.



When the prosecutor general is inaugurated, he must evade command as the general manager of the case under investigation, but it is ambiguous how to force the evasion if he does not specify this case.



If it is a case under trial, it is up to the president's judgment whether to properly maintain the prosecution.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-ki, video editing: Yumira) 



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