▲ Kim Hak-e, former Vice Minister of Justice, who was about to leave for Bangkok in 2019
The prosecution, who is investigating the ban on the departure of former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui, which has been controversial over illegality, launched a simultaneous confiscation and search of the Ministry of Justice on the 21st.
A week after the prosecution formed an investigation team, the investigation is expected to rise rapidly as it initiates a seizure search for the Ministry of Justice, etc., and converts to a forced investigation.
There are observations that the summons of those involved in the case of the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Swordsman's Past Photographic Investigation Group, which are at the center of suspicion, have also entered the countdown.
The Suwon District Prosecutor's Office said it had executed a warrant for seizure and search against the Ministry of Justice this morning.
The subject of seizure and search included the Office of the Prosecutor's Office of the Ministry of Justice, the office of the Immigration and Foreign Policy Headquarters Gyu-geun Cha, the Incheon International Airport Immigration and Foreigners Administration, and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office of Planning and Coordination.
In particular, the prosecution confiscated and searched the office of the Fair Trade Commission (Justice Officer's Office) in the Sejong Government Complex where the prosecutor is dispatching the Supreme Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee (41, Judicial Research and Training Institute 36), which is the center of suspicion in the afternoon, and the prosecutor's home. It has been confirmed to have entered.
The prosecution is also conducting forensic work on confiscated objects.
It is known that there are at least 6 to 7 sites for seizure and search, as most of the places of work of the accused in the public interest report are included.
According to a public interest report containing an illegal act in the process of urgent withdrawal measures against former Vice Minister Kim, the officials of the Immigration Department at the time of the Ministry of Justice at the time from March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, 177 times , Personal information including date of birth, immigration control information, etc. was inquired and reported to the top.
In addition, the public interest reporter said that Park Sang-sang, former Minister of Justice, etc., approved the withdrawal request on the morning of the 23rd, a day later, knowing the circumstances in which Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee, who did not have the right to investigate, illegally banned former Vice Minister Kim from using the personal information obtained in this manner. Insisted.
The prosecutor is known to have entered a false case number and internal company number in a withdrawal request sent to the Ministry of Justice.
The prosecution is planning to check whether the information contained in the public interest report is true through seizure and search.
According to the decision of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office on the 13th, the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office took over the case from the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office on the 13th, and a day later, on the 14th, the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office formed an investigation team with the 3rd Detective Chief Lee Jeong-seop (the 49th and 32nd units) as the team leader and initiated a full-scale investigation.
For the past week, the prosecution conducted a full-scale search for seizure after carefully reviewing the public interest report and the data handed over from the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office, which was initially investigating the case.