'Yoon Seok-yeol's Aide' Cho Sang-jun, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Seoul High Prosecutors' Office, Resigns... 11 Prosecutor General Positions Vacant
Josangjun, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at Seoul High Prosecutors' Office / Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] Cho Sang-jun, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office, who holds the rank of chief prosecutor (age 50, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 26), has announced his resignation.
According to the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office on the 28th, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Cho recently submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Justice. He took a leave of absence that day and did not come to work.
During last year's investigation into the family of former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Cho served as the head of the Criminal Affairs Department at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and acted as a key aide to Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. However, in January of this year, he was effectively demoted and transferred to the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office.
With Deputy Chief Prosecutor Cho's resignation, the number of vacancies at the chief prosecutor level and above has increased to 11. The Ministry of Justice plans to hold a Prosecutor Personnel Committee meeting at 10 a.m. on the 30th and is expected to carry out promotions and transfers of high-ranking prosecutors at the chief prosecutor level as early as that afternoon.
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Current vacancies include the head of the Human Rights Department at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, deputy chiefs at the Seoul, Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju, and Busan High Prosecutors' Offices, the Planning Department head at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, as well as recently vacated positions due to resignations such as the chiefs of the Seoul and Busan High Prosecutors' Offices, the chief of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, and the chief of the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office.
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