Kim Jiyong Attends First Cabinet Meeting... "Will Successfully Establish Serious Crimes Investigation Agency and Complete Prosecutorial Reform"
Attends first Cabinet meeting since taking office
Lee urges investigations “without regard to whose side someone is on and with no sacred cows”
Inauguration ceremony as agency chief scheduled for afternoon
Kim Jiyong, chief of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency, said on Tuesday that he would "successfully establish the agency, complete prosecutorial reform, and do his utmost to protect the rights and interests of the people," as he attended a Cabinet meeting for the first time since taking office.
Kim made the remarks at a Cabinet meeting chaired by President Lee Jae-myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday morning. Since the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency was launched, its deputy chief, Jeon Jong-min, attended Cabinet meetings on October 6 and 13 as acting chief.
President Lee urged Kim to "prove to the people the meaning and necessity of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency by mobilizing all investigative resources to sternly punish serious crimes without distinction or exception, regardless of whose side someone is on."
When he arrived at the agency's headquarters on Monday, Kim told reporters, "I believe the politicization of investigations may have been at the root of various harmful practices, including the abuse of investigative authority by the former Prosecutors' Office," emphasizing political neutrality and fairness.
The chief of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency and the deputy chief of the Public Prosecution Service, along with other heads of investigative and prosecutorial agencies, are attending Cabinet meetings under the Lee administration, which has expanded attendance to include heads of external agencies affiliated with ministries. In the past, the prosecutor general and the commissioner general of the National Police Agency generally did not attend Cabinet meetings.
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Kim received his appointment letter from President Lee on Monday. He is scheduled to hold an inauguration ceremony at Rene Square in Jung-gu, Seoul, on Tuesday afternoon and officially take office.
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