The Yoon Seok-yeol government granted special pardons to 1,373 people at the end of last year. All attention was paid to the amnesty of politicians such as former President Lee Myung-bak and former Gyeongnam Governor Kim Gyeong-soo. On the other hand, the fact that there were several former prosecutors on the pardon list did not attract much attention. Former prosecutors (Jang Ho-joong and Lee Je-young) who interfered with the investigation of the ‘National Intelligence Service comment manipulation case’ during the Park Geun-hye administration are among them. The former NIS dispatched prosecutors were sentenced to 1 year in prison and 1 year and 6 months in prison, respectively, after an investigation and trial resumed in 2017. However, when Newstapa obtained and examined some of their trial records, the circumstances under which the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Yoon Seok-yeol and others conducted coercion and appeasement investigations at the time of the investigation, the suspicion of misconduct by prosecutors classified as the so-called ‘Yoon Seok-yeol Division’, and the circumstances covered by the prosecution this was heard <편집자 주>
