Former Minister of Justice and his wife, Professor Kyung-Shim Chung, Dongyang University, was tried in court as a defendant.

Section 25-2 of the Seoul Central District Court's Criminal Agreement (Jung Sung-yeop Kwon Seong-soo, Deputy Judge Sun-hee Kim) will not merge today (8th) in Professor Chung's follow-up trial charged with forgery of private documents. "I said.

The court's decision confirmed that it would not do so after reviewing whether or not to merge Professor Chung's case in the 21st section of the criminal case in charge of Cho's case and handing over Professor Chung's case to section 25-2 of the criminal case trial. is.

Therefore, as part of Professor Chung's case, which was once considered for separation and merger, remains in the 21st part of the criminal agreement that took over the case of Cho, it is expected that the couple will be tried with me as a defendant in the same court.

Professor Chung has been in the middle of saying that standing in a courtroom with former Minister Cho is "a disgrace to 'a couple'. '

Taking this into consideration, the section 25-2 of the Criminal Agreement will be released on April 3 if you wish to separate Professor Chung's portion from the case of Part 21 of the Criminal Agreement (in which the former prosecutor and prosecutor Chung were prosecuted) and merge it with our trial. So far, please ask for an application. "

However, when Prof. Chung did not file an application by the last three days, the prosecution said today, “(Prof. Chung's lawyer's request for a merger) was suspected of other purposes, such as delaying lawsuits, not protecting human rights. Please confirm it. "

In conclusion, Division 25-2 of the Criminal Agreement concluded, "I will not merge with Division 21 of the Criminal Agreement."

Meanwhile, today's Professor Chung's trial was conducted by Witness Newspaper about Park Mo, who served as the head of the Faculty Personnel Team at Dongyang University.

Mr. Park has spoken to Professor Chung several times to produce materials required by the Ministry of Education and the National Assembly regarding the suspicion of Professor Chung's daughter's citation.

The issue of today's Witness newspaper was also the issue of the authenticity of Professor Chung's daughter's citation, which was stamped with the digital file's seal.
Mr. Park testified that "the general administration department does not write a scan file (the president's seal), but always stamps".

Then, when Professor Chung asked about the injuries used to stamp the certificate during a call, he said, 'It is asking as a rouge.'

Park also testified that "(Professor Jung) once said, 'You should not give data on personal information,' but I have never expressed the expression 'Don't give me data, you are injured, it is dangerous.' .

In this regard, the prosecution also played a recorded file in court that Professor Jeong said during a conversation with Mr. Park, "You shouldn't talk about this anywhere. I swear to the sky."

Professor Jeong's lawyer refuted in the opposing newspaper, saying, "(a digital file exists for the president's seal)," Park also acknowledged, "I have confirmed that (a digital seal) has been (sent) to the diploma."

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