On the 8th, Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu is on his way to work. yunhap news
– In connection with the assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu and the suspicion of a caring investigation by the Seocho Police Station in Seoul, investigator Seo Cho-seo, who was in charge of the case, replaced the personal cell phone immediately after the controversy.
Why did you change it at this time?
– According to the JoongAng Ilbo coverage on the 9th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s fact-finding team organized on January 24th of this year received mobile phones from investigator A, the chief of the criminal team, the chief of the criminal team, and the chief of the criminal team at the time of the incident on November 6 last year. In this process, it was found that investigator A replaced the personal mobile phone just before submission.
The police fact-finding team recently submitted and returned a total of three mobile phones, including a former personal mobile phone, a new personal mobile phone, and a business mobile phone that Investigator A used. For forensic work. Separately, the 5th Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Prosecutor Dong-eon Lee), who is investigating this case, is also seizing and searching Seocho-seo and securing and analyzing three mobile phones of Investigator A.
Is it a’smoking gun’ to reveal suspicions of watching?
– The prosecution estimates that investigator A’s personal cell phone in the past will contain the circumstances reported to the top at the time of the incident. It is pointed out as a’smoking case (definitive clue)’ that will reveal whether the suspicion of investigating the caregiver for this Vice Minister is an individual deviation from investigator A, or whether it is due to the orders of the superiors. Investigator A is reported to have explained that “I just replaced it because I used it for too long.”
Inside the police, investigator A puts the weight on the weight of getting sick after finishing smoothly, taking into account circumstances such as’the Deputy Minister and the taxi driver agreed to do something that didn’t exist.’ It is an analysis that the point that Investigator A said, “I will not see it,” even after seeing the black box containing the scene of the assault by Vice Minister Lee, seems to have the same purpose.
However, some of the police said, “Is Investigator A closed this vice-minister’s case at the order of the police chief?” Investigator A recently complained to his close associates, “I felt a considerable burden in the process of terminating the internal investigation by changing the case in which the police box first recognized this vice-minister’s case for violation of the Specific Crime Weighting Act and turned it into an assault charge without having filed it.” .
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January 27, Seocho Police Station in Seoul. On this day, the prosecution conducted a seizure search in connection with the suspicion of investigating Seo Cho-seo against Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu. News 1
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Is it an individual deviation or an organizational care?
– Some point out that it is difficult to see the conclusion of this vice-minister’s case as a matter of Seocho-seo only. This is because, according to Article 23 (Report on Investigation), Paragraph 2 of the National Police Agency’s criminal investigation rules,’crime of a judge, prosecutor, or attorney’ is classified as an important case subject to reporting and investigation. Vice Minister Lee was a lawyer at the time of the crime. Moreover, it was also a period when the National Police Agency emphasized to the metropolitan and provincial police offices and affiliated police stations, “Be sure to report investigations on important cases to a higher level government office.”
Regarding this, General B, who was the chief of Seocho at the time, told JoongAng Ilbo, “Because there are so many lawyers in the jurisdiction of Seocho-seo, we did not judge the case as an important case and did not report it to the Seoul Police Agency.” It is explained that it was not intended to look at the reason for the end of this loan crime, but to an agreement with the victim and a legal review. Deputy Minister Lee also said several times, “I have never contacted a senior police officer in relation to the incident.”
After the Lunar New Year holidays, the prosecution is planning to summon and investigate police officials related to the case of the Vice Minister, including Investigator A. Regarding Lee’s charges of assaulting a taxi driver, the subpoena is also inevitable.
Reporter Minjoong Kim [email protected]
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