Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok: "Strict Travel Ban Measures on Key Suspects"

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok has ordered frontline prosecutors' offices to strictly enforce travel bans on key suspects and defendants.

On the 19th, Prosecutor General Lee instructed prosecutors' offices at all levels to ensure thorough and effective travel ban measures against key suspects and defendants.

On the 2nd, at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office New Year's meeting held in Seoul, Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok is delivering the New Year's address. / Photo by Heo Young-han younghan@

Prosecutor General Lee stated, "At the investigation, trial, and sentence execution stages, the necessity of travel bans should be carefully reviewed to prevent human rights infringements while enforcing strict travel ban measures. For offenders who have already fled, fair investigation, trial, and sentence execution must be ensured through substantial and efficient law enforcement such as international criminal judicial cooperation, extradition, passport invalidation, deportation, and INTERPOL red notice actions."

Prosecutor General Lee's emphasis on travel bans for key suspects and defendants appears to be in consideration of the disruptions caused to investigations due to core figures fleeing overseas amid allegations surrounding Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea.

Former Ssangbangwool Group Chairman Kim Sung-tae fled overseas after allegations arose that he paid legal fees for Lee's trial on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act, causing delays in the investigation. Kim was recently apprehended in Thailand and repatriated to Korea after about eight months on the run.

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