Candidate Dong-Hoon Han for Minister of Justice leaves the office of the Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where the candidate’s office was set up on the morning of the 15th of last month | yunhap news
Regarding the civil suit filed by Justice Minister candidate Han Dong-hoon on the 7th against Yoo Si-min, former chairman of the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation, he said, “I have no intention of withdrawing because if I compromise roughly, this will repeat itself against other powerless people.”
In a written response to a personnel hearing submitted to the National Assembly on the same day, one candidate answered a question from Rep. Jeon Joo-hye, who asked, “If you take office as minister, do you have any intention of withdrawing from filing a civil lawsuit against Yoo Si-min?” He emphasized, “The current lawsuits, including the civil lawsuit against Yoo Si-min, are about illegal acts that occurred in the process of retaliating against a public official for doing my job properly.”
Previously, former chairman Yoo was accused of making remarks to the effect that the anti-corruption force department of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office illegally tracked him and the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation accounts in late November or early December 2019 in the YouTube channel ‘Alileo’ and later in a media interview in December 2019. He was brought to trial in May of last year. A candidate who was in charge of the Anti-Corruption and Violence Department of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office at the time Yoo mentioned that he also filed a civil suit in relation to his remarks.
Former Chairman Yoo posted an apology on the website of the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation in January last year, but denied the allegation of defamation during the trial. Prosecutors demanded a year in prison for him at a decision hearing held last month.
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