The Anti-Corruption Commission Requests Public Corruption Investigation Service Probe into Kim Su-nam and Moon Moo-il over Alleged Forgery and Dismissal of Complaint

High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Agency (Gong-su-cheo) / Photo by Moon Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has reportedly received a request for investigation from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) regarding former and current prosecutors, including former Prosecutor Generals Kim Sunam and Moon Mooil, who are suspected of being involved in the 'forgery of complaint documents' case.

According to the legal community on the 5th, the CIO received corruption report materials concerning nine individuals, including former Prosecutor General Kim, on the 29th of last month and is currently reviewing whether to initiate an investigation. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission reportedly received the related corruption report from Lim Eunjeong, the Ministry of Justice's Inspection Officer, in July and recently requested the CIO to investigate.

Former Prosecutor General Kim and three others are under suspicion for covering up the case by accepting the resignation without disciplinary action despite having uncovered the forgery of complaint documents by Prosecutor Yoon from the Busan District Prosecutors' Office in 2016.

Former Prosecutor Yoon was tried on charges including forgery of official documents and, in March last year, the Supreme Court confirmed a suspended sentence of six months imprisonment. A suspended sentence is a system where sentencing is postponed for a certain period for defendants with minor offenses, and if no specific incidents occur during that period, the sentence is waived.

In response, Officer Lim filed a complaint with the police in 2019, accusing former Prosecutor General Kim and three others of dereliction of duty, calling the cover-up of the forgery case a typical example of 'protecting one's own.' After the police's search warrants for the Busan District Prosecutors' Office were rejected three times, the case was sent to the prosecution with a non-prosecution opinion in April last year, and the prosecution dismissed all charges against them.

The reason the number of reported individuals has increased compared to the time of the police complaint is reportedly because additional former prosecution officials, including former Prosecutor General Moon Mooil, who did not accept the disciplinary demands against prosecutors who tried to cover up the forgery case, were added.

A CIO official stated, "We will review the received materials and decide whether to register and transfer the case."

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