"Cancel the Search and Seizure by the Corruption Investigation Office"… Former Suwon District Prosecutors' Investigation Team Files a Quasi-Appeal

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] The former Suwon District Prosecutors' Office investigation team, currently under investigation by the High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Department (Gong-su-cheo) over the 'Lee Seong-yoon Seoul High Prosecutors' Office Chief Indictment Leak Allegation,' has filed a quasi-appeal with the court to cancel the search and seizure.

According to the legal community on the 6th, the former Suwon District Prosecutors' Office investigation team submitted a quasi-appeal against Gong-su-cheo's search and seizure to the Seoul Central District Court the previous afternoon. A quasi-appeal is a procedure to request the court to cancel or change a disposition made by an investigative agency.

Gong-su-cheo believes that after the investigation team indicted Chief Lee last May on charges including abuse of authority and obstruction of the exercise of rights, they leaked an edited version of the indictment to the media. In this process, they searched the Supreme Prosecutors' Office's Information and Communications Division and checked the messenger records of the former Suwon District Prosecutors' Office investigation team.

However, the investigation team argues that since the indictment is not an official secret, the search and seizure are impossible. In particular, they raised issues with the inclusion of two prosecutors who had returned to their original offices at the time of the indictment leak as subjects of the search and seizure. They also pointed out procedural problems, noting that although it is illegal for police officers dispatched from Gong-su-cheo to participate in the search and seizure, two police officers were present at the scene.

Additionally, the investigation team is reportedly planning to file an administrative lawsuit demanding the cancellation of Gong-su-cheo's refusal to allow inspection and copying of records.

Meanwhile, this is the third time Gong-su-cheo's search and seizure has been subject to a court ruling. Previously, Kim Woong, a member of the People Power Party and a suspect in the 'Complaint Stockpiling' case, filed a quasi-appeal against Gong-su-cheo's illegal search and seizure, which the court accepted.

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