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Corruption Investigation Office Head Kim Seon-gyu’s Case and Potential Dismissal: Latest Updates

Kim Jin-wook, head of the Corruption Investigation Office, is returning to his office after the unveiling ceremony for the Corruption Investigation Office’s signboard reflecting the new logo at the Gwacheon Government Complex on August 26 last year. yunhap news

It was confirmed that Kim Seon-gyu, head of the 1st investigation department of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (Corruption Investigation Office), received a suspended prison sentence at the appeals court for a case indicted before his appointment to the Corruption Investigation Office. He was found not guilty in the first trial, but if a sentence of imprisonment or higher is confirmed as requested, he may be dismissed from his position as a prosecutor at the Corruption Investigation Office. The second trial verdict is scheduled to come out in January next year. The Hankyoreh reported on the 31st that the prosecutors requested a one-year prison sentence and two years of probation at the appeal hearing on the case of Director Kim’s violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, which was held on the 26th at the Criminal Division 9 of the Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Seong-bok Lee). done. The sentencing will take place on January 11th next year. Prosecutors from the Corruption Investigation Office are not dismissed, except in cases of impeachment or being sentenced to imprisonment or higher. Even if a suspended sentence is imposed, the sentence is equivalent to imprisonment or higher. Director Kim submitted a 213-page arrest warrant request written while investigating Mr. He is suspected of passing it on to Mr. Prosecutors indicted Director Kim without detention in April 2020. The issue is whether the data handed over by Director Kim contained personal information such as the names, resident registration numbers, stock holdings, and real estate ownership of 19 references in addition to the allegations against Mr. A. The first trial court declared him not guilty in September 2021 on the grounds that it was true that Director Kim handed over the arrest warrant request form to Mr. B, but that personal information, etc., may not have been included in it. The written opinion delivered by Director Kim to Mr. B was written on November 25, 2014, and the actual arrest warrant request was made three days later. This means that the delivered opinion did not contain personal information, and that the information may have been updated in later versions. He also judged that since Mr. B already knew Mr. A’s name, etc., it did not amount to a leak of ‘informing information to a person who does not know the information.’ Director Kim took office as the new head of the Corruption Investigation Office in October last year. This happened one year after the first trial acquittal. His position was recently changed to head of the 1st investigation department of the Corruption Investigation Office. Director Kim is classified as a ‘special agent’ who was dispatched to the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and investigated the Park Yeon-cha Gate. Reporter Jeon Gwang-jun [email protected]
2023-10-31 05:58:39
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