A senior prosecutor on the heart of a controversial attraction withdrawal case started his new responsibility as the top of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Workplace on Friday, saying he’ll do his greatest to stabilize the prosecutorial group.
“I really feel a heavy burden as I tackle this vital accountability at a time when restoring public belief within the prosecution and boosting the morale of its members are pressing,” mentioned Park Cheol-woo, who was appointed to one of the influential prosecution posts in a reshuffle carried out on Wednesday.
Park’s appointment triggered an issue as he was reportedly concerned within the prosecution’s resolution to not attraction a ruling on the so-called Daejang-dong corruption case whereas serving as the top of the Supreme Prosecutors Workplace’s anticorruption division. The reshuffle got here after Jung Jin-woo resigned because the chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Workplace two weeks in the past in protest of the choice to not attraction the Daejang-dong ruling.
Park was additionally questioned by reporters concerning the Daejang-dong case, which allegedly concerned President Lee Jae Myung when he beforehand served as mayor of Seongnam, simply south of Seoul, however he didn’t present particular solutions.
