Seongyun Lee, Chief Prosecutor of Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office [사진 제공:연합뉴스]
When front-line prosecutors reported that former Vice Justice Kim Hak-eui was banned from leaving the country illegally, testimonies emerged that the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Corruption Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office was trying to cover it up.
At the trial once morest Lee Seong-yoon, chief of the Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office, which was held at the hearing of the 27th part of the Criminal Settlement of the Seoul Central District Court, Lee Hyun-cheol, the chief prosecutor of the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office, who appeared as a witness, said, “In 2019, when I was serving as the head of the Anyang Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, So, I received an answer to the effect that I would not receive a report.”
Prosecutor Lee said, “I mightn’t solve an important case without a report to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, so I made a report. said.
Deputy Prosecutor Lee added, “It seems that the chief of the investigation command department conveyed the will of the Anti-Corruption and Violence Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.”
Meanwhile, Senior Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon was handed over to trial on charges of exerting external pressure on the investigation of illegal withdrawals of former Vice Minister Kim Kim of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office Anyang Branch while serving as the Anti-Corruption Force Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in 2019.
