It was confirmed that the prosecution, who is investigating the suspected illegal departure ban (withdrawal) of Kim Hak-ei, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, investigated the command of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office at the time of investigating the leak of departure information in 2019. The prosecution is concentrating on whether there was any external pressure from the so-called’superior’ in relation to how the investigation was stopped even after discovering the situation of illegal withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim at the time.
In connection with the allegations of illegal departure by former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-ei, the so-called’Chumi-ae line’, who are suspected of being involved in the allegations, are interested in whether they will be subpoenaed. The photo shows the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office in Suwon City, Gyeonggi-do on the morning of the 14th. News 1
– According to the JoongAng Ilbo coverage on the 28th, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office (Team Leader Lee Jeong-seop, 3rd Detective Division Head) investigated Mr. A, a senior prosecution officer who was the command of the Anyang District Office on the 26th. The officer A was the supervisor of Prosecutor B of the Anyang District Office investigation team when the investigation team summoned it on the 24th. Prosecutor B was the main prosecutor who investigated the immigration headquarters of the Ministry of Justice at the time.
In April 2019, during an investigation by an employee at the Immigration Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor B discovered an illegal situation in the withdrawal process of former Vice Minister Kim. At the time of the withdrawal of former Vice Minister Kim on March 23 of that year ▶Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Past Photographic Investigation Group entered the fake investigation and internal case number in the emergency withdrawal request and approval request, and ▶Kyu-geun Cha, the head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Division of the Ministry of Justice, approved it afterward I figured it out.
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The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office car was erected in front of the Gwacheon Ministry of Justice building on the 21st, when the prosecutors investigating the case of Kim Hak-ei, a former Vice Minister of Justice banning the departure of the country, a controversy over illegality. yunhap news
– At the time, the investigation team said that the prosecutor’s request for withdrawal corresponds to the suspicion of the preparation and event of the official documents for the purpose of qualification and false official documents. However, at the end of June of that year, the Prosecution Bureau of the Ministry of Justice and the Anti-Corruption Forces Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office were instructed to stop further investigations through various channels, and the report was not made. This is also contained in the second public interest report filed on the 20th by a public interest reporter who reported the allegations of illegal withdrawal by former Vice Minister Kim to the National Rights Commission earlier this month.
In the process, Prosecutor B refused to write a decision of no charge against the Immigration Headquarters staff of the Ministry of Justice, and the case was later reassigned, leaving the investigation team. The officer A was the core of the Anyang branch’s command at the time of the redistribution of the case that caused Prosecutor B to be removed from the investigation team. The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office reported that there was an inconvenient point in the process of reassignment of the case, and at the time, the prosecution department of the Ministry of Justice and the anti-corruption department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office were looking into whether there was actually any external pressure from the head of the head.
![On March 23, 2019, a former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui is leaving the airport after being banned from emergency departure while trying to board a plane bound for Thailand at Incheon Airport. Recently, a public interest report that this process is illegal withdrawal due to manipulation of documents and records by the Ministry of Justice and the prosecutors' office has been investigated. [사진 JTBC 캡처]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/28/fdd3eb4d-d23b-4350-8153-4d5be927bf73.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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On March 23, 2019, a former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui is leaving the airport after being banned from emergency departure while trying to board a plane bound for Thailand at Incheon Airport. Recently, a public interest report was received that this process was illegal withdrawal due to manipulation of documents and records by the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution, and the prosecution started an investigation. [사진 JTBC 캡처]
– Earlier, on the 21st, the Suwon District Prosecution Investigation Team confiscated and searched the Ministry of Justice (immigration headquarters, Incheon International Airport Immigration Office), the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office (Policy Planning Division), and the Fair Trade Commission (Prosecutor Gyu-won Lee, Legal Adviser). Seized and searched. In the process, it is said that the Anyang branch’s command at the time had secured a large number of data containing the situation that it was under all-round pressure from the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Swordsman to suspend the investigation. The time when the allegations of pressure to stop the investigation of the so-called’superior’ were raised before a senior prosecutor’s official in August 2019.
The JoongAng Ilbo attempted to contact Prosecutor A several times to hear the position of the A, but did not respond.
Reporters Ha Junho and Jung Yujin [email protected]
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