'Seo Ji-hyun Prosecutor Retaliation' Ahn Tae-geun, Final Acquittal Confirmed Without Reconsideration

Former Legal Affairs Bureau Chief of the Ministry of Justice, Ahn Tae-geun, who is suspected of sexually harassing a subordinate and then imposing personnel disadvantages, is appearing on the 26th at the Sexual Harassment Incident Fact-Finding and Victim Recovery Investigation Team set up at the Eastern District Prosecutors' Office in Songpa-gu, Seoul, to undergo prosecution investigation. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hyowon] Former Prosecutor General Ahn Tae-geun, who was indicted on charges of personnel retaliation to suppress Prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun's sexual harassment allegations, has been acquitted.

According to the legal community on the 7th, the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Appeal Division 4-2 (Presiding Judges Ban Jeong-mo, Cha Eun-kyung, Kim Yang-seop) delivered a retrial verdict acquitting former Prosecutor General Ahn. Since the prosecution did not file a further appeal within the appeal period (7 days), the acquittal has been finalized.

Former Prosecutor General Ahn was indicted on charges of intervening in the transfer process of Prosecutor Seo, whom he had sexually harassed in the past, from the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office Yeoju Branch to the Changwon District Prosecutors' Office Tongyeong Branch while serving as the Director of the Prosecutor's Office at the Ministry of Justice in August 2015. The sexual harassment charges were not prosecuted due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The first and second trials both sentenced former Prosecutor General Ahn to two years in prison, but the Supreme Court, in January of this year, strictly interpreted the law on abuse of authority and overturned the case with a verdict of not guilty, remanding it for retrial.

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