Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol's request to evade the disciplinary committee was dismissed today (10th).
After internal discussions this afternoon, the Prosecutors' Disciplinary Committee of the Ministry of Justice rejected all complaints against Yoon's side.
Previously, President Yoon's side, vice minister of the Ministry of Justice Lee Yong-gu, Prosecutor General Shim Jae-cheol, and external committee members Jeong Han-jung, a professor at Hankuk University Law School (law school), and Anjin, a professor at the Chonnam National University Law School, questioned the fairness and applied for refusal.
In a recent telegram dialogue, Vice Minister Lee evaluated the constitutional appeal of the Prosecutor's Disciplinary Law on the part of the Prosecutors' Discipline as'handshake', and in that he acted as a defense for former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Paik Woon-gyu in relation to the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility of the Wolseong nuclear power plant. It.
Attorney General Shim is counted as the'right arm' of Minister Chu Mi-ae within the Ministry of Justice.
Outside members, Professors Chung and Ahn have served on the Legal Prosecutors' Reform Committee for the current government.
In particular, Professor Jeong, who served as the chairman on behalf of Minister Chu, said in a seminar held in August that "the insurgency of the prosecution reform is a prosecutor from the Special Department and the Special Department." It is a person who criticized "I understand enough.
The disciplinary committee, after receiving an application for challenge from President Yoon's side, made all the special lawyers out of the conference hall and decided whether to do so in private.
If an application for refusal is received under the Prosecutor and Discipline Act, the refusal will be decided with the approval of a majority of the attending members.
Members who have been nominated for evasion cannot participate in the resolution.
The disciplinary committee eventually dismissed Mr. Yun's request to challenge Vice Minister Lee and two outside members.
It is known that Yoon's decision was made with the intention of abusing the right to appeal.
Director Shim made an application for evasion and was removed from the disciplinary committee.
It is noteworthy that there are criticisms from both inside and outside the legal profession, saying, "Is it correct to make a fair judgment?"
As a result, the question is, wasn't it'looked' among those who were subject to refusal.
One prosecutor's office raised the question, "If 4 out of 5 people applied for challenge for similar reasons, shouldn't all 4 of them be left out of the decision process?"