Jeong Jeomsik: "Prosecutors Must Refuse Secondment to 'Fabricated Indictment Special Counsel'... Accomplices Will Be Punished Later"
People Power Party floor leader Jeong Jeomsik said on Tuesday, regarding the Special Counsel Act on fabricated indictments, which passed under the ruling party’s leadership, “Prosecutors at the Public Prosecution Office should refuse (in the future) to be dispatched to the special counsel’s office. If you are dispatched and become accomplices in the lawless judicial insurrection of canceling indictments, you too will be subject to investigation and punishment in the future.”
Speaking at an on-site party caucus meeting in front of the Blue House in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on Tuesday morning, Jeong said, “Under current law, prosecutors have no investigative authority, and the special counsel’s plan to investigate is a ploy that violates the law. They must not become loyal dogs of a conscience-free administration.”
Regarding Lee Yongcheol, the nominee for Minister of Justice, Jeong said, “The Seongnam cartel has devoured the Republic of Korea.” He added, “Nominee Lee said, ‘The special counsel should focus on uncovering the truth, and everything else will be handled according to the law and principles.’ That means that once the special counsel finishes its fabricated investigation, he will handle everything else as he sees fit.”
He continued, “In Lee Jaemyung’s escape-from-prison project, nominee Lee is the one directing the cancellation of indictments, and the special counsel is the vanguard. They have entrusted the cancellation of indictments to nominee Lee, a 20-year friend of the Seongnam cartel, even though they could not entrust it to Rep. Kim Seungwon, head of the group advocating for the cancellation of indictments; Rep. Jeong Seongho, a close ally of Lee; or Reps. Park Gyuntaek and Yang Bumnam.”
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Jeong also said of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency and the Public Prosecution Office, “The Serious Crimes Investigation Agency has not secured enough investigators, and the Public Prosecution Office is also short-staffed because of the agency’s impact. The Serious Crimes Investigation Agency and the Public Prosecution Office should rightly refuse to dispatch prosecutors and investigators to the special counsel’s office.”
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