Sewol Ferry Special Task Force Conducts Search and Seizure at Ministry of Justice and Supreme Prosecutors' Office over 'External Pressure' Allegations
![Prosecutors from the 'Sewol Ferry Disaster Special Investigation Unit' are loading Sewol Ferry-related materials, seized during a search on the afternoon of November 22 last year, into a vehicle at the Korea Coast Guard headquarters in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon. <br>[Image source=Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2019112422375599254_1574602675.jpg)
Prosecutors from the 'Sewol Ferry Disaster Special Investigation Unit' are loading Sewol Ferry-related materials, seized during a search on the afternoon of November 22 last year, into a vehicle at the Korea Coast Guard headquarters in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon.
[Image source=Yonhap News]
[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The prosecution has launched an investigation into allegations that the Ministry of Justice exerted external pressure on the prosecution investigation team investigating related suspicions during the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster.
According to the prosecution on the 26th, the special investigation team for the Sewol ferry disaster conducted a search and seizure of the Criminal Planning Division of the Ministry of Justice's Prosecution Bureau and the Criminal Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office on the 18th and 19th, securing related materials such as reports from the time of the disaster.
The prosecution plans to trace documents exchanged between the investigation teams formed at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, the Ministry of Justice, and the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office at the time, as well as the internal reporting routes within the Ministry of Justice.
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The 4.16 Sewol Ferry Disaster Families' Association filed a complaint with the prosecution against Hwang Kyo-ahn (63), then Minister of Justice, on charges of exerting pressure not to apply charges of professional negligence resulting in death against Kim Kyung-il, captain of the Mokpo Coast Guard vessel 123, who was dispatched to the Sewol sinking site. Woo Byung-woo (53), then Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs at the Blue House, was also jointly reported on charges of exerting external pressure by instructing the investigation team conducting a search and seizure at the headquarters of the Korea Coast Guard not to seize the situation room's computer server.
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