It was belatedly revealed that Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu assaulted a taxi driver while drunk last month while he was a lawyer.
According to Seoul's Seocho Police Department, Vice Minister Lee caught a taxi driver in an apartment in Seocho-gu late at night early last month when he was working as a lawyer.
It was reported that the taxi driver who arrived at the apartment at the time was trying to awaken the deputy, who was sleeping in the car while drunk.
After receiving a report from the taxi driver, the police dispatched him to confirm the identity of the deputy minister, and then returned to investigate later.
Later, the taxi driver informed the police that he did not want punishment.
The police closed the case without criminal charges against Lee, in accordance with the policy to deal with simple assault, which is a crime against false punishment.
Certain crimes that aggravate assault on a driving car driver were not followed by the Act on Aggravated Punishment, etc., but simply applied the charges of assault under the criminal law.
A police official said, "If a car is parked or stopped in a place where there is no fear of impairing public traffic safety and order, it is not driving," said the Constitutional Court decision. It's closed."
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