Prosecutor from Investigation Team on 'Kim Geon-hee Dior Bag' Resigns... "Feeling Disillusioned"
by Kim Jinsun
Published 22 Jul.2024 21:44(KST)
Updated 23 Jul.2024 06:53(KST)
Opposition to Prosecutor General's Truth Investigation Order
Resignation Announcement, "Angry About Being Classified for Inspection"
A prosecutor investigating allegations of luxury handbag acceptance by Kim Geon-hee, wife of President Yoon Seok-yeol, has reportedly submitted a resignation.
According to the legal community on the 22nd, Kim Gyeong-mok, deputy chief prosecutor of the Criminal Division 1 at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Judicial Research and Training Institute class 38), who was dispatched to investigate Kim's alleged violations of the Anti-Graft Act, submitted his resignation on the same day.
It is known that Deputy Chief Prosecutor Kim expressed his opposition and submitted his resignation after hearing that the Supreme Prosecutors' Office had launched an inquiry into the so-called 'bypassing the Prosecutor General' controversy. He reportedly stated, "I am angry and disillusioned that I was classified as a subject of inspection despite having only diligently investigated the case."
Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok received a report from District Prosecutor Lee Chang-soo on the 20th about the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' investigation team summoning Kim Geon-hee without prior notice, and on the same day ordered the Supreme Prosecutors' Office Inspection Department to conduct a fact-finding investigation.
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office explained that the investigation is merely to verify the facts reported by District Prosecutor Lee and is not yet at the stage of initiating an inspection against him.
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