A series of hearings during the investigation and trial..."Democrats Intervene in Justice"

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The National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee held an impeachment hearing yesterday (2nd) by a prosecutor who investigated the case of "illegal remittance to North Korea."

The ruling party is protesting against the National Assembly's "judicial intervention" amid criticism that the 22nd National Assembly has led by the opposition party and more frequent hearings on investigations and trial cases.

Reporter Kim Da-yeon reports.

[Reporter] Prosecutor Park Sang-yong's impeachment hearing, which investigated the
Ssangbangwool Remittance Case to North Korea, was focused on the lips of Lee Hwa-young, former governor of peace in Gyeonggi Province, who attended as a witness.

Former deputy governor Lee, who was jailed for making the Ssangbangwool Group pay for the Gyeonggi governor's visit to North Korea, repeatedly claimed that there was a prosecutor's conciliatory statement.

[Lee Hwa-young / Former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor for Peace (Yesterday): If Lee Jae-myung is charged with bribery by a third party, I was offered to allow all of my punishment in the first trial to be offset and be released on bail....]

We cannot rule out the possibility that the allegations raised by the opposition party will turn out to be true, but Gyeonggi-do Province Governor Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea,
Given that the trial is currently underway at the Suwon District Court,
, it is inevitable to point out that it is a "judicial intervention."

[Yoo Sang-beom / People's Power (Yesterday): After all, this hearing is criticized as a hearing for the purpose of being involved in the trials of Lee Hwa-young and Lee Jae-myung.]

It is not unfamiliar to the 22nd National Assembly that the case under investigation and trial appears as the subject of the hearing.

Suspicion of the so-called "civil petition owner" that Ryu Hee-rim, chairman of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, recently made relatives and acquaintances file complaints about the "Kim Man-bae-Shin Hak-rim false interview" report.

The police are currently investigating, but the opposition party believes that it is conducting a "biased investigation" as the target is limited to employees of the Korea Communications Standards Commission who made public interest reports, but

The ruling party has not budged from its position that it is clearly illegal to disclose the personal information of the complainant.

[Choi Hyung-doo / Member of the People's Power (Last month 30th): The key is that the petitioner's status was illegally inspected by insiders of the Korea Communications Standards Commission in collusion with the outside world.]

[Lee Hoon-ki / Rep. of the Democratic Party of Korea (Last month, 30th): He is putting a lot of pressure on public interest reporters. However, Chairman Ryu Hee-rim is a police officer and has never been investigated anywhere.]

Last year, the National Assembly was the place where the police investigation team, which was investigating the alleged involvement of customs officials in drug crimes, was under external pressure from its superiors.

The ruling party argued at the hearing that it was illegal to ask for answers about the investigation and trial, and the opposition party counters that the investigation was initially conducted for political purposes and should be blamed well.

We cannot deny that it is the role of the legislature to ask if there is any suspicion, even if it is an investigation and trial case.

However, it seems difficult to avoid pointing out that the political weight of the "National Assembly hearing" is getting lighter due to repeated requests for witnesses, absence of key witnesses, and "conflict hearings."

I'm Kim Dayeon of YTN.



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