“At the time, Yoon, ‘Is there anything you can see?’”… Suspect Lee Seong-yoon attended

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Lee Seong-yoon, a researcher at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, who served as the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office in the previous government, was investigated by the prosecution.

Two years ago, President Yoon Seok-yeol was accused of being involved in the inspection process he received as prosecutor general, and this researcher strongly protested, saying he had even heard verbal abuse from President Yoon at the time.

This is reporter Han So-hee's report.

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Lee Seong-yoon, a researcher at the Legal Research and Training Institute, attended the prosecution as a suspect.

Two years ago, while serving as the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, President Yoon Seok-yeol, as prosecutor general, allegedly interfered with the investigation and inspection of the Channel A case and even made abusive language.

[Lee Seong-yoon/Judicial Research and Training Institute Research Fellow: President Yoon poured out unstoppable words and shouted, 'Is there anything you can see?'

At that time, I felt an unbearable sense of humiliation.]

Then, he directly called President Yoon a 'disciplined person' and said he was conducting a 'retaliation investigation'.

[Lee Seong-yoon/Research Fellow at the Judicial Research and Training Institute: I wish the person under disciplinary action would have apologized for their wrongdoing or reflected on themselves if such a ruling came out, but now it's just a pity and pity that it's a retaliatory investigation.

] They are accused of being involved in passing the phone records of then prosecutor Han Dong-hoon, secured by the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, to Park Eun-jung, an inspector general at the Ministry of Justice, who was supervising the prosecutor general.

President Yoon was punished by two months of suspension for reasons such as obstructing the inspection of then-prosecutor Han Dong-hun.

A group of conservative lawyers accused researcher Lee and former officer Park of violating the Protection of Communications Secrets Act, saying, "Illegal use of call details for a film inspection", but they were dismissed last year. The investigation resumed when the high prosecutor issued an order for a re-investigation.

An official in the presidential office downplayed the researcher's claim, saying, "I couldn't see what he was saying," and "I don't think he would have made a separate statement even if he had seen it."