Lee Seong-yoon, Chief of the Central District Prosecutors' Office, Decides to Skip Prosecutors' Meeting... "Supreme Prosecutors' Office Contacted Saying No Need to Attend Investigation Agency"

Lee Seong-yoon, the newly appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, is delivering his inaugural speech at the inauguration ceremony held on the 13th at the Central Prosecutors' Office building in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] Lee Seong-yoon, Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, announced on the 3rd that he will not attend the 'National Prosecutors General Meeting' being held at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

A representative of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office stated, "Since this meeting at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office is intended to gather various opinions from frontline offices, we received a notice that the investigative office does not need to attend, so we plan not to participate."

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office is investigating the so-called 'prosecutor-media collusion' suspicion, in which former Channel A reporter Lee Dong-jae allegedly conspired with Prosecutor General Han Dong-hoon (age 47, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 27) to threaten former Value Invest Korea (VIK) CEO Lee Cheol to report corruption involving Yoo Si-min, chairman of the Roh Moo-hyun Foundation, while covering suspicions related to SillaJen.

Chief Prosecutor Lee and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' investigation team are at odds with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, demanding "guarantees of investigative independence." On the 1st, Lee met with Prosecutor General Yoon but replaced the regular reporting with a written report.

Meanwhile, on the previous day, Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae ordered in writing to suspend the procedure of the expert investigative advisory group for the prosecutor-media collusion investigation and directed the investigative team to conduct an independent investigation without supervision from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

In response, Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol decided not to proceed with the expert investigative advisory group meeting scheduled for the 3rd and instead convened a meeting with the national prosecutors general to gather opinions. Accordingly, the National Prosecutors General Meeting is being held today in the meeting room of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

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