From the left, Gyu-geun Cha and Hak-Eui Kim. yunhap news-On the 6th, the court dismissed the arrest warrant against Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, accused of approving the prohibition of illegal departure for Kim Hak’s former Vice Minister of Justice.
On the 5th, Suwon District Law Justice Oh Dae-seok, who is in charge of warrants, conducted an interrogation of the suspect before arrest on the head of the car headquartered on charges such as obstruction of exercise of rights of abuse of authority, writing and exercising false official documents, and abandonment of duties. It is difficult to admit the necessity of arrest,” he dismissed the warrant.
Judge Oh said, “Considering the necessity of complying with strict due process, the matter is not light, but it is difficult to judge that there is a concern about destruction of evidence or fear of escape in light of the evidence collected during the investigation process and the attitude of the suspect in the investigation.” Revealed.
Director Cha is charged with receiving reports of personal information inquiries including Kim’s name, date of birth, immigration control information, etc., from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, 177 times from the morning of March 19, 2019 to the afternoon of the 22nd of the same month, Are receiving.
In addition, he is also charged with approving the withdrawal request on the morning of the 23rd, a day later, despite knowing the circumstances that the prosecutor of the Past Photographic Investigation Group at the time of the Great Prosecutor’s Office at the time was illegally taking an emergency withdrawal action against former Vice Minister Kim.
The prosecution requested a warrant for arrest on the 2nd, after three times last month, calling the head of the headquarters into an investigation as a suspect, and after seeing that the charges were proved.
General Manager Cha explained to the reporters questioning whether the ban on departure for Kim was illegal before attending the warrant deliberation, “It’s not illegal. Former Vice Minister Kim was trying to escape overseas by secretly using automatic immigration late at night.” did.
He added, “I would like to ask the public if it is right to let me, the head of the immigration headquarters in charge of border management at that time, take no action and leave it to flee overseas,” he added.
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