Jung Jin-woo, the top of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Workplace, supplied to resign Saturday, the workplace stated, a day after prosecutors determined to not attraction a ruling in a high-profile growth scandal case.
His supply got here simply 4 months after taking workplace, in what’s seen as a protest towards the prosecution’s determination to not file an attraction, reportedly consistent with the justice ministry’s opinion that the case didn’t warrant one.
Final Friday, the Seoul Central District Court docket sentenced 5 figures to jail in reference to the event corruption scandal linked to President Lee Jae Myung, stemming from his tenure because the mayor of Seongnam, a metropolis south of Seoul.
These convicted included Yoo Dong-gyu, the previous appearing president of Seongnam Improvement Corp., and Kim Man-bae, a significant shareholder of asset administration agency Hwacheon Daeyu, in addition to two attorneys and an accountant.
The scandal facilities on allegations {that a} small variety of little-known personal asset administration firms, together with Hwacheon Daeyu, have been allowed to reap astronomical funding income from the actual property growth challenge in Seongnam’s Daejang-dong District in 2015, when Lee was town’s mayor.
Lee individually stood trial on prices of inflicting losses to Seongnam Improvement Corp., however the courtroom indefinitely postponed his trial after his victory within the presidential election in June.
Earlier within the day, Kang Baek-shin, one of many prosecutors concerned within the case, wrote in an inside bulletin that he had been ready to file the attraction however was knowledgeable by senior management simply hours earlier than the seven-day deadline expired Friday that the choice had been made to not proceed.
Beneath the Prison Process Act, if prosecutors forgo an attraction, the sentences can’t be elevated underneath the “prohibition of unfavorable modifications.” All 5 defendants have filed appeals.
