The Corruption Investigation Office Secures Inspection Record List and Family Testimonies in the Case of Late Prosecutor Kim Hong-Young

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The High-ranking Officials' Crime Investigation Unit (Gong-su-cheo) has secured the prosecution's inspection record list and the family's testimony regarding allegations of leniency in the case of the late Prosecutor Kim Hong-young.

According to the legal community on the 14th, the family of Prosecutor Kim submitted a brief written statement along with the inspection record list concerning the perpetrator, former Chief Prosecutor Kim Dae-hyun, to the Gong-su-cheo Investigation Division 1 (acting Chief Prosecutor Lee Dae-hwan) last month.

The investigation team plans to review the inspection process through this record list and will additionally request meaningful materials from the family.

The investigation began last year in August when Deputy Chief Prosecutor Lim Eun-jeong of the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office's Major Economic Crimes Investigation Unit reported the inspection line at the time, including former Prosecutor General Kim Soo-nam and former Inspection Headquarters Chief Jeong Byeong-ha, to Gong-su-cheo.

Prosecutor Kim left a suicide note expressing work-related stress in May 2016 while working at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office and took his own life. Subsequent inspection by the Supreme Prosecutors' Office revealed that former Chief Prosecutor Kim, his superior, verbally and physically abused Prosecutor Kim and others. Although former Chief Prosecutor Kim was dismissed, he was not criminally prosecuted.

The Korean Bar Association belatedly filed charges against former Chief Prosecutor Kim, and after the prosecution's investigation, the first trial court sentenced him to one year in prison last July.

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