Corruption Investigation Office Questions Former Chief Prosecutor Kim Hyung-jun as Complainant in Bribery Allegation
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Agency recently conducted a complainant investigation regarding bribery allegations against former Chief Prosecutor Kim Hyung-jun (51, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 25), who has been dubbed the so-called 'sponsor prosecutor.'
According to the legal community on the 15th, the Agency's Investigation Division 2 (Chief Prosecutor Kim Sung-moon) summoned Kim Mo (51), a middle and high school classmate and 'sponsor' of former Chief Prosecutor Kim, on the 10th and conducted a complainant investigation lasting about 8 hours and 40 minutes.
Based on the investigation, the Agency is expected to conduct searches and seizures of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office investigation materials and also proceed with investigations of the suspects, including former Chief Prosecutor Kim and lawyer Park.
Former Chief Prosecutor Kim is accused of providing favors in criminal cases to lawyer Park Mo (51, class 26), a former colleague from the prosecution, while serving as head of the Securities Crime Joint Investigation Unit at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, and receiving money and entertainment worth approximately 57 million won from March to September 2016 from lawyer Park.
In October 2016, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office arrested and indicted former Chief Prosecutor Kim on charges of receiving money and entertainment from Kim, but judged that the bribery charges were unfounded. However, Kim submitted a complaint to the police regarding these charges in October 2019.
The police sent former Chief Prosecutor Kim and lawyer Park to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office last year with a recommendation for prosecution, and the prosecution transferred the case to the Agency in June. The Agency registered them a month later on charges of bribery and bribery offering under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes.
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Meanwhile, former Chief Prosecutor Kim was sentenced by the Supreme Court in 2018 to one year in prison with a two-year probation for the bribery charges related to receiving bribes from Kim.
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