Park Beom-gye orders investigation into the leak of Lee Seong-yoon's indictment... Jo Nam-gwan also tells related department to "clarify the truth" (Comprehensive)

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The Supreme Prosecutors' Office has launched a fact-finding investigation regarding suspicions that the indictment in the case of Lee Seong-yoon, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office chief, who was charged with exerting external pressure in the investigation of former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-ui's illegal travel ban case, was leaked.

On the 14th, Park Beom-gye, Minister of Justice, ordered the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to conduct a fact-finding investigation into the indictment leak suspicions involving Prosecutor Lee.

The Ministry of Justice stated that "there are suspicions that Prosecutor Lee's indictment for abuse of authority was illegally leaked before being delivered to the concerned parties," and that Minister Park instructed Cho Nam-gwan, Acting Prosecutor General (Deputy Chief of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office), to investigate the matter.

In response, Acting Prosecutor Cho immediately ordered the Inspection Division 1, Inspection Division 3, and the Information and Communications Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to collaborate and clarify the facts.

Several media outlets reported that former Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs Cho Kuk and Lee Kwang-cheol, Secretary for Civil Affairs at the Blue House (former Senior Administrative Officer of the Civil Affairs Office), were involved in the case based on the indictment of Prosecutor Lee, which was filed the previous day.

The prosecution stated that at the time, Secretary Lee reported the illegal travel ban case of former Vice Minister Kim to Senior Secretary Cho Kuk, requesting "to prevent Prosecutor Lee Gyu-won from being investigated," and Senior Secretary Cho informed Yoon Dae-jin, Director of the Prosecutor's Office at the Ministry of Justice, about this, which was recorded in the indictment as evidence of external pressure on the investigation.

Following these reports, Minister Park expressed discomfort during a press encounter on his way to work that morning, saying, "I am steadily accumulating [evidence]."

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