‘Yoon Jjik-eonaegi Inspection’ Chief Prosecutor Park Eun-jeong Dismissed... "I Suspected Retaliation"

Yoon's Unauthorized Provision of Ministry of Justice and Supreme Prosecutors' Office Inspection Data to Inspection Committee

Regarding the ‘dismissal inspection of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol,’ Park Eun-jung, former Inspection Officer of the Ministry of Justice (currently Chief Prosecutor of the Important Economic Crime Investigation Division at Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office), has been dismissed.

Eunjeong Park, former Inspection Officer at the Ministry of Justice.

According to the legal community on the 4th, the Ministry of Justice Prosecutor Disciplinary Committee held a meeting on the 27th of last month and decided to impose the highest level of dismissal on Chief Prosecutor Park. Under the Prosecutor Disciplinary Act, disciplinary actions are divided into five levels: reprimand, salary reduction, suspension, dismissal from office, and dismissal.

Chief Prosecutor Park is accused of providing Ministry of Justice and Supreme Prosecutors' Office materials obtained during the inspection of Han Dong-hoon, then Chief Prosecutor (currently Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party), related to the ‘Channel A case’ in October 2020 during the tenure of former Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae, to the Ministry of Justice Inspection Committee without authorization.

At that time, the Ministry of Justice Inspection Committee was inspecting Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who was then the Prosecutor General. Chief Prosecutor Park is also accused of instructing the revision and deletion of a draft report prepared by a subordinate prosecutor that suggested "it is difficult to hold Prosecutor General Yoon accountable."

After being notified by the Ministry of Justice that he had been referred to the disciplinary committee, Chief Prosecutor Park submitted his resignation on the 6th of last month.

Upon receiving the dismissal notice, Chief Prosecutor Park stated on his social media, "I was just an ordinary criminal division prosecutor who did my best every month to handle cases so that no one would be wronged," adding, "The inspection of former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol was no different."

He continued, "As the Ministry of Justice Inspection Officer at the time, I could not just watch our prosecution being distorted from its original nature by those seeking self-preservation and fame," adding, "I anticipated retaliation but simply did my best and worked without shame as a prosecutor of the Republic of Korea."

He also wrote, "The retaliatory disciplinary action will ultimately be overturned by the court," and "I will make sure to hold accountable the disciplinary committee members who participated in the disciplinary process."

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