Park Beom-gye: "Prosecutor General's Inspection Department 'Lee Seong-yoon Indictment Leak' Omission Report, No Major Issue"
Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye is attending the extraordinary Cabinet meeting held at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the 11th. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] Regarding the suspicion that the Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office deliberately omitted some details in reporting to the Ministry of Justice about the 'Lee Seong-yoon Seoul High Prosecutors' Office Chief Indictment Leak' case, Minister of Justice Park Beom-gye said, "So far, there doesn't seem to be a major problem."
Minister Park made this remark on the morning of the 10th as he arrived at the Ministry of Justice Gwacheon Government Complex, stating that he had received a related report the previous day. He also added, "What matters is how the indictment was leaked."
The Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office has been investigating the circumstances of the indictment leak involving Chief Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon for over six months, independently from the investigation by the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Division (Gong-su-cheo). During this process, a word processor file containing the indictment details was found on the computer of a current chief prosecutor close to Lee, but recently, suspicions arose that the Inspection Department deliberately did not report this to the Ministry of Justice.
Minister Park appears to have downplayed this suspicion while supporting the Supreme Prosecutors' Office Inspection Department's fact-finding investigation.
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Meanwhile, the Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office clarified the day before, stating that "no such Word file was found on Chief Prosecutor A's PC," and called the suspicion "groundless." On the same day, Han Dong-su, head of the Inspection Department, filed a lawsuit against the Chosun Ilbo reporter who reported the suspicion.
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