[Interview file] Commonalities between Miae Chu and Beomgye Park… 'Im Eunjung Card'

Justice Minister Park Beom-gye's recent execution of the prosecution's middle officers (deputy general prosecutors) consisted of ▲ '16 telegrams' ▲ '2 dispatched' and ▲ '1 adjunct'.

The precedent that the former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae drastically replaced the investigation team and command on pending issues (related to former Minister Cho Kuk, suspicion of intervention in Ulsan, etc.) a year ago has not been reproduced.

The investigation team on major issues, including the Wolseong nuclear power plant and Kim Hak's ban on illegal departure, and allegations related to Han Dong-hoon's prosecutor's office, remained in office.

The intention is not to step on the train of the former Attorney General, who was evaluated as an unconventional person.

The Ministry of Justice said it was trying to close the conflict with the prosecution.

“It's an explicit greeting” and “Chumiae Season 2 Trailer” are constantly being said.

Public opinion within the prosecution is not good due to the controversy over passing Min Jeong-su Shin and Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol at the level of the prosecutor's office, and one adjunct appointment (Lim Eun-jeong, a researcher at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office) enforced the personnel.

The process of having just one researcher Lim as a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office was also unstable.

The Ministry of Justice added an additional explanation to the press release, saying, "We have enhanced the efficiency and function of the surveillance work."

Even though I know I'm not going to accept the Justice Department's explanation right away.

Let's look back at last May to see what the real meaning of Researcher Lim's'One Point Greetings' is.

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'10 years ago, the prosecution forced perjury against several witnesses in a trial in the case of illegal political fund transfer by former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook.'

This suspicion began to rise above the surface in May of last year.

In politics, discussions have been made on whether to re-investigate the case of former Prime Minister Han.

Upon receiving the relevant complaint case, the prosecutor's office conducted a fact-finding investigation centering on the supervisory department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, which was dispatched to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office under the direction of the Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, reported the progress to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office after a month of investigation of the facts (time of reporting the great swordsman: July 10, 2020).

An official from the fact-finding team said, "I know there was no disagreement."

However, the official position of the central district prosecutor's office is different.

<It cannot be concluded that it is not suspicious because the investigation has not been sufficiently conducted due to reasons such as refusal to summon related persons>.

When the explanations of the fact-finding team and the central district prosecutor's office at the time were summarized, it seems that they reported to the great prosecutor a kind of'half conclusion' that even though they contained no suspicion, but that it could not be concluded.

The Supreme Prosecutor's Office reviewed the contents of this progress report by the Central District Prosecutors' Office without placing much significance.

It is known that we are also looking to see if there is any change in the statement of the person concerned.

An official at the prosecutor's office who participated in the investigation said, "Since the Supreme Prosecutor's Office has all of the'Raw Data', it seems that they are willing to do whatever they want based on it."

In September of last year, two months after the investigation of the facts of Chu

was completed incompletely, former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae moves.

At that time, Minister Chu appointed Prosecutor Lim Eun-jung of Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office as a researcher at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office (Ministry of Justice Personnel on September 10, 2020).

The job title is'Inspection Policy Researcher, Supreme Prosecutors' Office'.

This position is a place to study surveillance policies, etc. under the direction of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, separately from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd departments under the Supreme Prosecutor's Office.

It is known that it has created a place that did not exist before.

The researcher of the great swordsman is directly under the prosecutor general.

However, Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol was notified of such personnel information at the time, and was not able to grasp it in advance.

On the 14th of the same month, Researcher Im, who was appointed to the Great Prosecutor's Office, was in charge of affairs related to the case of the former Prime Minister Han Dong-soo under the direction of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office.

And nearly half a year has passed.

However, for some reason, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, including Researcher Lim, has not been able to produce a clear result of the investigation into the case of former Prime Minister Han.

It is reported that the investigation of the inmates who can give key testimony has been difficult, and the investigation has been slow due to internal disagreements with the Supreme Prosecutor's Office.

On the 22nd of next month, the statute of limitations on allegations of perjury teachers in connection with the trial of the former Prime Minister of Han has approached one month.

One month before the expiration of the restrictions on prosecution in related cases, unfortunately, the Minister of Justice is coming out again.

This time, I am Park Bum-gye, the new Minister of Justice.

Researcher Lim, who is not affiliated with the 1st and 3rd divisions of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, who has the authority to investigate, has been demanding, ‘Please issue a representative to have the authority to investigate.’

Minister Park held a so-called'tweezers greeting' on the 22nd that grants investigative authority to Researcher Lim.

It is the authority of the prosecutor general to issue a representative for the great prosecutor's office.

However, when the appointment of researcher Lim was blocked by President Seok-Yeol Yoon, the Ministry of Justice indirectly exercised the minister's personnel right called'adjunct appointment'.

In response to the request for the role of Researcher Lim, President Yoon

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Last week, Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who had been exposed to some of the personnel details of the prosecutor's middle officers (deputy chief prosecutors), said,

He said he reacted violently.

In September of last year, when Minister Choo Mi-ae appointed Prosecutor Im Eun-jung as a chief prosecutor and granted supervision power, there was a so-called ``passing of the prosecutor general''. He strongly rebelled against it.

In the past, it is known that some adjunct appointments were issued in the case of managers belonging to the Supreme Swordsman's Department of Commerce, in order to reduce the administrative procedures for extending their duties.

However, it is

Minister of Justice to issue an adjunct appointment to grant investigative authority for a specific researcher of the

is out transparently.

"This is the first time I see you" is a common reaction of prosecutors working at the great swordsman and prosecutors at the front-line prosecutors' office.

Criminal Procedure Act, a prosecutor must be in the status of <prosecutor belonging to the district prosecutor's office> to conduct investigations or prosecutions.

In the case of Researcher Lim, an adjunct appointment was issued as a member of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, and he also had the authority to conduct investigations.

In simple terms, it is possible to investigate the reference person and the suspect, claim a warrant or hand it over to trial.

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Regardless of the atmosphere inside the prosecution, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office is expected to speed up the investigation of the relevant facts.

The Supreme Prosecutor's Office is in need of an investigation into a specific inmate, but it is known that it is still in the pre-investigation stage (it is not clear whether the inmate is scheduled to be investigated, but whether it has not been done or the inmate is not responding to the investigation. ).

Investigation of the prosecutors of the investigation team at the time is also expected.

However, there are some executives inside the Supreme Prosecutor's Office who have doubts about the performance of the inspector's work, so it cannot be ruled out the possibility that the internal coordination of opinions is not smooth.

In particular, there is a high possibility that Han Dong-soo, the chief prosecutor, and Lim, the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, will collide with the chief of staff such as Yun Suk-yeol and the deputy chief prosecutor Nam-gwan Cho over the investigation of the suspicion of a perjury teacher related to the trial of the former Prime Minister.

Looking at the results of the investigation by the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, which will be known in some way in the future, it seems to be unclear why the two former and current Attorney Generals used Researcher Lim and whether the view of the so-called ``Eun-jung Im card'' was correct.

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