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A prosecutor who caused an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol was punished with a light punishment.
Including this, half of the prosecutors who have been disciplined for drunk driving in the past five years have been subject to light disciplinary action, but critics are criticizing that the disciplinary action still remains.
This is reporter Han Dong-oh.
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In December of last year, the then head of the Suncheon Branch was driving drunk on a road in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, and collided with a car next to it.
As a result of a breathalyzer test, the blood alcohol level was 0.044%, which is the license suspension level.
The disciplinary action confirmed following 8 months is a reprimand, the lowest level disciplinary action.
Reprimands are ‘to make people reflect on their mistakes while engaged in their duties’, and unlike dismissal, suspension, or salary reduction, there is no disadvantage in performance or remuneration.
However, according to the internal guidelines of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, drunk driving with a blood alcohol concentration of less than 0.08% is a suspension from the salary reduction, and if a traffic accident involving human or material damage is caused by drunk driving, the employee will be dismissed from suspension.
The Ministry of Justice explained that the level of disciplinary action was decided in consideration of the circumstances of the accident and other circumstances.
It seems that the explanation that it was a hangover driving in the morning and the fact that it is not clear whether the accident occurred because of drinking were taken into account.
As a result of YTN reporters looking at the status of prosecution disciplinary action over the past five years, six prosecutors have been disciplined for drunk driving.
Three of them, half of them, were reprimanded, and they were driving under the influence of the current level of license revocation.
The only prosecutor to be dismissed was a hit-and-run on the third drunk driving case, and the arrest of a current offender for refusing to take a breathalyzer was an exceptional case.
In May of last year, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office revised its internal guidelines following the Board of Audit and Inspection pointed out that the level of disciplinary action once morest public officials who received money, valuables and entertainment was lower than that of other general public officials.
However, if the level of disciplinary action lower than the guideline standard is repeated, such as in the case of drunk driving disciplinary cases, the public’s distrust of the prosecution does not seem to disappear.
This is YTN Han Dong-oh.
YTN Dongoh Han (hdo86@ytn.co.kr)
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