Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, the police have an arrest warrant...What's the police's position?

■ Host: anchor Lee Se-na, anchor Na Kyung-chul
■ Starring: reporter Shin Gwi-hye of the Ministry of Social Affairs

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[Anchor]
The validity of the arrest warrant issued against President Yoon Suk Yeol ends today, and the Airborne Agency suddenly sent an official letter saying it would entrust the police with the execution of the arrest warrant. In fact, it seems that President Yoon's recruitment based on this warrant has been canceled, but we will look into the detailed situation with a reporter. Shin Gwi-hye, a reporter from the Ministry of Social Affairs, is here. Please come in. The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit handed over the execution of the arrest warrant to the police, so please explain this first.

[Reporter]
The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit said it sent an official letter to the National Police Agency's National Investigation Headquarters at 9 p.m. last night. According to the police, the exact title of the official document is the command of the execution of arrest warrants and search warrants. It was sent under the name of Lee Jae-seung, the deputy head of the airborne department. However, the police said they received the official letter at 7 a.m. this morning. [Anchor] What is the specific content of this official document? [Reporter] Considering the expertise of execution, it was decided that it would be better to delegate the execution of the warrant to the National Police Agency's National Investigation Headquarters. He said he intended to proceed with the procedure quickly and efficiently. However, the investigation authority is held by the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, but the arrest is left to the police. To this end, he added that he would apply to the court today to extend the validity of the arrest and search warrant. The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit said it is possible to apply for an extension for more than seven days, reflecting the opinion of the national government.

[Anchor]
The validity period of the warrant execution is until midnight this morning, but it's past 3 p.m. We can say that it's been canceled today, right?

[Reporter]
I think we should look at it that way. Today is the last day of the validity of the previous warrant, so both the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the reporters near the official residence were nervous, especially as the pro- and anti-impeachment rallies continued day after day, and ruling party lawmakers had been gathering in front of the official residence since early morning, saying they would restrain the execution of the warrant. It was confirmed just after 8 o'clock this morning that such an official letter was sent. In fact, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit gave up re-enforcement before the expiration of the validity period.

[Anchor]
President Yoon's legal advisor Seok Dong-hyun is briefing. Let's go to the scene. President Yoon Suk Yeol protested that it was illegal for the high-ranking government officials' criminal investigation office and the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to entrust the police with the execution of warrants. Let's listen to the content.

[Seok Donghyun]
We have prepared a separate space for the purpose of standing when meeting reporters like today. Has the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit now entrusted the police with the execution of an arrest warrant and is it your opinion on that matter? We also heard the news that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit is entrusted with the execution of the arrest warrant as a police officer with one day left before the formal deadline for the arrest warrant. Basically, the president's position has been said several times that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit is investigating the president for treason against the president.Ma is not in line with the current positive legal system. In other words, it is an illegal investigation.

As it is an illegal investigation, the request for an arrest warrant is illegal, and the Western District Court issued it whether it overlooked or overlooked such illegality.Ma has also maintained that the warrant is a warrant that we cannot recognize its validity. In that state, I don't know whether the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit delegated the execution to the police or entrusted it to them.E Anyway, what I've left to it is that the first is that there is a self-imposed meaning to these problems, these are illegal, and the validity of the warrant may be problematic. In addition, from the point of view, the police will also not be able to execute with such a defective warrant.

In addition, as a separate matter from the illegal invalidity of the warrant, whether the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit can order the police to execute the warrant for arresting recruits and arresting people is another legal controversy. In conclusion, it is the judgment of our lawyers that we cannot do so. In other words, giving instructions between the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the police about the execution of such a warrant, whether it is commissioned, delegated, or entrusted, and the police receive it and execute the warrant does not fit the system of the Constitutional Criminal Procedure Act and the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit Act.

In general, if the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit receives a legitimate warrant, it must be executed by the personnel of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit. Prosecutors from the Airborne Division and investigators from the Airborne Division. Investigators corresponding to judicial police officers should do it, but they cannot leave it to the police. As a police officer, he struggled for so long not to receive such command from the general prosecution, and now the work is distributed between the prosecution and the police. Would the police listen to the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit? That's our position.

I can't reveal the word to word one by one.Ma is basically worried a lot about the fact that the rule of law is really undermined from the start and is now falling apart. Back in the day, some of the reasons behind the president's decision to declare emergency martial law are that the various functions or operations of our judiciary over the past few years are so out of due process principle that it takes two, three years for a criminal trial to complete and four to five years for the Supreme Court to be finalized, guaranteeing all parliamentary terms. There are a number of such parts... and the confusion of the rule of law caused in that way is taken very seriously.

In this situation, anyway, an agency called the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit was created under the leadership of the Democratic Party, but the relevant laws and regulations should be observed in the agency that has been functioning for three to four years now because the law has been passed. I think there should be no defects in both procedures and contents. In that respect, the president is also in a position to deplore that point, which clearly shows that the rule of law is distorted in this situation.

Wasn't there a case in which several major political figures in the power-type corruption case, lawmakers' trials, and other corruption cases by politicians have been put on trial in the past five to six years, leading to trials and the nullification of the election of an incumbent lawmaker among them? Aren't we seeing cases in which judges' incomprehensible trials are delayed for a long time and for one reason or another, and the ruling is made only after the lawmakers in question have actually completed their terms, or those who are supposed to be in court are elected and then extinguished by court judgment after being elected? This means that it does not fit the common sense of the people.

[Reporter]
I understand that there are many members of the People's Power because of the fast-track delay case, but do you think the lawyer or the president should proceed faster than such a case? And I wonder if you think it is appropriate for the Constitutional Court to hold a trial quickly.

[Seok Donghyun]
I will refrain from mentioning specific individual cases here. You asked about the impeachment proceedings. Same thing. According to the Constitutional Court Act, a trial is supposed to be held within 180 days, right? Basically, the side that sufficiently introduced 180 days and prosecuted the impeachment as prosecuted. In addition, from the standpoint of the prosecution and prosecution, I don't think the president can have a different view on the process of reaching the judgment's conclusion by fully expressing his position and opinion in accordance with the trial procedure and allowing the people to know it.

[Reporter]
The president said he was willing to speak directly at the impeachment trial, is there anything else set aside?

[Seok Donghyun]
The trial process has been carried out, and Yoon Gap-geun, a lawyer in charge of public affairs, will tell you at an appropriate time how the president deals with it, so I won't comment on that. There were so many questions about the situation that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit suddenly entrusted the execution of the arrest warrant to the police that I made this today to answer it. Please understand that it is difficult for me to say anything beyond my role today because the overall process is divided between the public information lawyer and the public information lawyer.

[Reporter]
You said the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit should follow the relevant laws, what do you think it's not?

[Seok Donghyun]
The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit does not have the right to investigate rebellion. In the Corruption Investigations Unit Act, the targets and crimes that can be investigated by the Corruption Investigations Unit. So you can investigate someone in a certain position. In addition, the law stipulates that certain types of crimes can be investigated against the subjects. Although the president is included in the content, there is no crime of rebellion.

Therefore, we have emphasized numerous times since the beginning of this investigation that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit does not have the right to investigate rebellion. And I don't have to say this, but we also ask ourselves why the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit keeps insisting that they have the right to investigate such an obvious interpretation.

[Anchor]
I've heard the position of the president's lawyer in Yoon Suk Yeol. First of all, I once again emphasized the existing position that it is illegal for the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to investigate rebellion. He stressed that the request for an arrest warrant is also illegal and cannot be recognized as a warrant. There was also an explanation that handing over the execution to the police means self-recognition of the issue of effectiveness.

Currently, the impeachment trial must be investigated within 180 days in accordance with the Constitutional Court law. There is a need for a sufficient period of time. He also expressed his position that he should fully express his position and opinion so that the people know it. I just heard Seok Dong-hyun's legal advisor, but President Yoon expressed his view very negatively on the issue of police appointment, right?

[Reporter]
As previously stated, it seems to have maintained the claim that there is no right to investigate rebellion. There were also claims that the deadline for the warrant is today, but the sudden appointment of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to the police does not admit the validity of the warrant. In addition, there is no problem only when the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit obtains a legitimate warrant and executes it with the personnel of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, and it seems problematic that it will proceed with securing arrest recruits while delegating execution to the police in this way. I also made that argument.

[Anchor]
Then, the investigation of President Yoon has been put on hold, can we see it like this?

[Reporter]
In a briefing earlier, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit said that even if the police execute the warrant, they are the subject of the investigation. However, he expressed his position to transfer President Yoon's case to another investigative agency if necessary. The purpose is not to insist on an investigation into rebellion for unnecessary reasons, but the police briefed in the afternoon and drew a line on the transfer. So, it seems that they will request an arrest warrant again for now.

[Anchor]
So far, we've been with Shin Gwi-hye, a reporter from the Ministry of Social Affairs. Thank you for saying that.