Regarding the claim that Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong's parole was raised by his passport, Justice Minister Park Beom-gye said, "It is not appropriate for me to comment."
On the way to work at the Ministry of Justice's Gwacheon Complex on the morning of the 21st, Minister Park said, "The Minister of Justice has the authority and position to talk about the parole policy," but said, "Whether or not a specific person's parole is a matter of procedure and system." I did.
Earlier, during a visit to Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung and Samsung Electronics' Hwaseong Campus, Song Yeong-gil, president of the Democratic Party of Korea, said about Lee, "According to the guidelines of the Ministry of Justice, you can be eligible for parole after completing 60% of your sentence in August. I think you are thinking about it,” he said.
In response to Song's remarks, some analysts have suggested that the passport is trying to solve the problem of Lee's recruiting through parole, which is finally decided by the Justice Minister after going through a review committee rather than by a politically burdensome amnesty.
On the other hand, with regard to the investigation by the Ministry of Justice regarding the leak of the indictment of the Seoul High Prosecutor's Office, Lee Seong-yoon, "I did not receive a special report," he said, "I think it will take quite a while for the inspection."
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