Former prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun, who was sentenced to jail for retaliation in personnel to prevent prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun from exposing the victims of sexual harassment, was acquitted at the destruction court.



Section 4-2 of the Seoul Central District Court's Criminal Affairs Office (Deputy Judge Ban Jeong-mo Eun-gyeong Cha and Yang-seop Kim) sentenced the prosecutor to a safety prosecutor who was accused of obstructing the exercise of his right to abuse his authority and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment, breaking the first trial and acquitting him.



The judiciary said, "The fact that the prosecutor at the Changwon District Prosecutor's Office was transferred to the Tongyeong Branch Office of the Chief Prosecutor in charge of the prosecutor in charge cannot be concluded that it violates the principles of consideration for the following personnel, or contradicts the prosecutor's personnel principles and standards. Revealed.



“It is difficult to see that the person in charge of personnel drafting a human resources plan that forwards the prosecutor to the Tongyeong branch is difficult to see as'no obligation' in the crime of obstructing the exercise of the right to abuse of authority.”



Prosecutor Ahn Jeon was charged with intervening in the process of being appointed to the Changwon District Prosecutor's Office from the Yeoju Branch of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office when he served as the Prosecutor's Office of the Ministry of Justice in August 2015.



The prosecution said that the prosecutor in charge of Ahn had instructed the prosecutors in charge of personnel to create a personnel plan that violates the personnel standards in order to expel the prosecutor after rumors of his alleged sexual harassment.



The charges of sexual harassment have not been charged after the period of the complaint.



Both the first and second trials considered the charges of sexual harassment by the safety prosecutor as true, and convicted the charge of abuse of authority due to unfair personnel intervention and sentenced to two years in prison.



However, in January, the Supreme Court strictly interpreted the law of abuse of authority, broke the case and returned it to the Seoul Central District Court with the intention of innocence.



The judgment of the remand of destruction is in accordance with the purpose of the Supreme Court.



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