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Lee Seong-yoon, former chief of the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office, was investigated by the prosecution.

He is suspected of being involved in the process of inspecting then-President Yoon Seok-yeol, who was then the Prosecutor General two years ago.



Reporter Han So-hee covered the story.



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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.



] He is suspected of being involved in the transfer of the phone records of then-chief prosecutor Han Dong-hoon, secured by the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, to Park Eun-jung, an inspector general of 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 filming inspection” was dismissed last year, but in June after the regime changed. The investigation resumed when the Seoul High Prosecutor's Office 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."



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)