Prosecutors Dismiss Case Against Yoon Seok-yeol and Han Dong-hoon Over 'Targeted Investigation of Lee Jae-myung' Accusation

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The prosecution has dismissed a case in which a civic group accused President Yoon Seok-yeol of conducting a targeted investigation against Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party's general election committee chairman, when Yoon was the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.

According to the legal community on the 30th, the Anti-Corruption and Violent Crime Cooperation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Cheon Ki-hong) dismissed the case on the 26th, in which the Citizens' Action for Judicial Justice (Sasehaeng) had accused President Yoon and others of abuse of authority and coercion. Dismissal is a measure that terminates the case without substantive judgment when the conditions for litigation are not met.

Earlier, Sasehaeng had accused President Yoon and Han Dong-hoon, Minister of Justice and then the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, alleging that in 2018, while Yoon was serving as head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, the Violent Crime Division had coerced a businessman in the Seongnam area to testify that he had given money to former Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung.

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, which received the case in November last year, transferred it to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in February, and the case was assigned to the Anti-Corruption and Violent Crime Cooperation Division.

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