Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok took aim at Lee Jae-myeong, leader굿모닝토토 도메인 of the Democratic Party of Korea, and said, “In my 30 years as a prosecutor, I have never encountered such a difficult subject of investigation.”
Prosecutor General Lee responded as follows to the comment of Park Beom-gye, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, that ‘the prosecution requested to split Representative Lee’s warrant with political intent’ during the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee’s audit of government affairs held at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 23rd.
Prosecutor General Lee said, “During my time as a prosecutor, I was in charge of various difficult cases involving large corporations and conglomerates, as well as internal inspection cases of the prosecution, and did a lot of difficult work,” adding, “When I was the head of the 1st Special Department at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, I investigated President Park Geun-hye. It was a current president, not a former president. “When the Blue House was raided and the senior officials were searched, the senior officials were also currently serving,” he said.
He continued, “I have been in public office for 30 years, but my honest feelings are that this is the first time I have been the subject of such a difficult investigation.” “Not as the leader of the opposition party, I thought, ‘It is so difficult to investigate the leader of the largest and majority party. It is difficult to overcome each hurdle one by one. “That’s what I’m thinking,” he said.
Prosecutor General Lee said, “I believe that members of both the opposition party and the ruling party are the ‘ears’ of the ‘lawlessness’ I am talking about,” and added, “To be honest, there are no people in the Republic of Korea who are as difficult to investigate as you. When requesting the first warrant, the motion for arrest was passed. “I decided that an arrest warrant could be issued and requested a warrant,” he explained.
At his inauguration ceremony on September 16 last year, President Lee quoted the ancient Chinese thinker Han Feizi’s ancient idiom, “Law does not flatter those of noble status,” and said he would conduct an investigation without sanctuary.
