'Yoon Seok-yeol Investigation' with People Power Party Saying "Monster Corruption Investigation Office for Regime Protection and Opposition Suppression"

"We Will Not Succumb Even to Opposition Party Suppression"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jun-yi] The High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Unit (HCIC) has registered former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, as a suspect. In response, the People Power Party criticized it as a "monstrous HCIC solely for protecting the regime and suppressing the opposition party."

Heo Eun-ah, the chief spokesperson of the People Power Party, stated in a commentary on the 10th, "Not only did they carry out ruthless and illegal searches and seizures on an incumbent opposition lawmaker, but now they are pushing through a swift registration of a case against the leading presidential candidate of the main opposition party based on assumptions and speculation," expressing this view.

According to the legal community on the same day, the HCIC's Investigation Division 3 (Chief Prosecutor Choi Seok-gyu) assigned the case number 'Gongje 3' to the complaint against former Prosecutor General Yoon and others and registered the case the day before. The HCIC plans to investigate former Prosecutor General Yoon and Son Jun-sung, then the Investigation Information Policy Officer at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, on four charges: abuse of authority and obstruction of rights, disclosure of official secrets, violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, and violation of the Public Official Election Act.

Spokesperson Heo pointed out, "The HCIC's behavior of registering the case within three days as if waiting for the complaint from a pro-government civic group and listing all sorts of charges as if the crime has already been established is a blatant pattern of political manipulation that this regime so dearly loves."

She added, "Why does this regime become so obsessed with political manipulation and suppression of the opposition party every election season?" and asked, "Are they so afraid of the people's judgment?"

Spokesperson Heo said, "The people have clearly witnessed the atrocities of the Moon Jae-in administration led by the HCIC today, and this will surely be recorded in history," adding, "No matter what political oppression or attempts to destroy the opposition party occur, the People Power Party will never succumb."

Meanwhile, on the same day, the HCIC conducted searches and seizures at the office of Kim Woong, a People Power Party lawmaker involved in the 'alleged complaint manipulation' related to former Prosecutor General Yoon, as well as at the residence and office of former Policy Officer Son. In response, the People Power Party announced its intention to file complaints against the HCIC prosecutors and investigators who searched Kim's office.

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