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During the civil affairs of the Blue House, former secretary of the United States, faced with suspicion of oversight of former Busan Deputy Mayor Yoo Jae-soo, attended the first trial today (8th).

[Homeland / Former Minister of Justice: Prosecutors will refute allegations that are distorted and exaggerated according to facts and laws. I will fight tirelessly.]

The key point of the trial is whether the end of the prosecution at that time is a crime of 'abuse of right to abuse,' and a fierce judicial workshop went from the first trial.

Reporter Won Jong-jin.

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Cho, who left the courtroom after nearly nine hours of trial, remained silent.

[Homeland / Former Minister of Justice: (You have been tried for the first time. … .] In

today's trial, Lee In-geol, a special prosecutor at the Blue House, was present as a witness when he examined the criticism of former Busan mayor Yoo Jae-soo.

Prosecutors have asked the former deputy chief for inspector suspension, and Lee had testified to the former deputy mayor, but testified that he remembered that the inspection was suspended due to the decision of chief civil affairs at the time of his fatherland.

This is different from the reply of the former Congressional Minister Cho in December 2018 that the grounds for spying were weak.

If there was no order to stop, it would have been notified or requested by the relevant authorities, and said the suspension of inspections was not normal.

Former Minister Cho used the logic of whether the inspection is over and whether the agency is involved or not.

Since the special supervisory group moves only in accordance with the instructions of the chief civilian, it is not an organization with special authority, so the end of the inspection is not the right to exercise the right of authority or the exercise of rights.

The former secretary of state, Won-Woo Baek, and the former anti-corruption secretary, Park Hyung-cheol, denied charges of abuse.

(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, Video editing: Ha Sung-won)