"Accuser Son Junsung Denies Sending 'Complaint and Attachments' to Kim Woong, Warns of Legal Action"

Former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Choi Seok-jin, Legal Affairs Specialist] Son Joon-sung, former Policy Officer for Investigation Information at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office (currently Human Rights Protection Officer at Daegu High Prosecutors' Office), who is implicated in the 'accusation instigation' allegations involving former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol?a key issue in the presidential election?fully denied the related allegations on the 6th and announced plans for legal action.

Son, the former policy officer, was identified by Newsbus as the person who delivered the accusation documents against ruling party politicians to the main opposition party, the United Future Party (now People Power Party), through Kim Woong, then a United Future Party candidate (now a People Power Party member).

In a statement distributed to the press on the same day, Son said, "Today (the 6th), Hankyoreh newspaper and Newsbus reported suspicions that I sent accusation documents and attached materials to Representative Kim Woong," adding, "I would like to reiterate that the suspicion that I drafted the accusation documents or sent the attached materials to Representative Kim Woong is completely untrue."

He continued, "In the future, I plan to take strong legal measures against baseless allegations and illegal acts such as defamation related to this matter."

Earlier, on the 2nd, Newsbus reported that "it has been confirmed that the prosecution instigated the opposition party to file criminal accusations against pro-government politicians around the time of the April 15 general election last year."

Newsbus identified Representative Kim as the person who delivered the prosecution's accusation documents and the real-name criminal judgment documents of Ji Mo, the whistleblower in the 'prosecutor-media collusion' case, to the opposition party, and Son, the former policy officer, as the person who delivered these materials to Representative Kim.

Although Newsbus did not directly report on former Prosecutor General Yoon's involvement at the time, the article stated that "the Policy Officer for Investigation Information at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office directly reports major trends inside and outside the prosecution to the Prosecutor General and carries out the Prosecutor General's confidential instructions," which later led the ruling party to raise the possibility of Yoon's involvement.

One of the ruling party's presidential candidates, former Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae, posted on her Facebook over the past weekend photos of inspection materials related to former Prosecutor General Yoon and claimed that Prosecutor General Han Dong-hoon and Yoon's wife, Kim Geon-hee, might also be involved in this allegation.

On the same day, Hankyoreh reported that it had obtained the problematic accusation documents reported by Newsbus and stated that these were the accusation documents that Son appeared to have delivered to Representative Kim.

Son, who took leave and did not go to work on the 3rd, the day after Newsbus's report, was also reported to have taken leave and not gone to work on this day.

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