Democratic Occasion ground chief Kim Byung-kee speaks at a press briefing from the Nationwide Meeting on Nov. 9, 2025. (Yonhap)
The choice by prosecutors to forgo an enchantment in a corruption case surrounding growth in Seongnam’s Daejang neighborhood has provoked polar reverse reactions from the ruling and opposition events.
The ruling Democratic Occasion defended the prosecutors’ “efforts at self-correction,” whereas the opposition Individuals Energy Occasion vehemently denounced what members known as the “abuse of energy to impede an investigation.”
On Oct. 31, the Seoul Central District Courtroom sentenced a number of figures for his or her roles in a corruption scandal associated to the Daejang growth undertaking in Seongnam throughout Lee Jae Myung’s tenure as mayor of the Gyeonggi metropolis.
Commenting on the prosecutors’ determination in a chat with reporters on the Nationwide Meeting on Sunday, Democratic Occasion ground chief Kim Byung-kee mentioned, “The prosecutors’ management decided to forgo an indiscriminate enchantment in consideration of the repeated excessive charges of acquittal in its particular [anti-corruption] division’s investigations, the controversy over unreasonable investigations, and the general public’s criticism.”
He added that it was a choice that “preserved a modicum of conscience earlier than the general public.”
Responding to the outcry from the prosecutors who investigated the Daejang case and different prosecution insiders, Kim careworn that the “core of this case lies within the rash habits of a handful of politicized pro-Yoon [Suk-yeol] prosecutors.”
“Why did they do nothing when it was Kim Keon-hee?” he requested, referring to the prosecutors’ determination to not indict the previous first woman over alleged Deutsch Motors inventory worth manipulation.
“They didn’t even indict as a result of they considered Kim Keon-hee as an ‘unjustly accused sufferer,’” he added.
The Democratic Occasion aggressively refuted allegations that the choice was a results of “outdoors stress” in six commentaries and a press convention on Sunday, which got here on the heels of one other six commentaries a day earlier that characterised the prosecutors’ determination as — within the phrases of occasion spokesperson Park Ji-hye — a “sign of reflection and self-correction efforts on the prosecutors’ half.”
Individuals Energy Occasion ground chief Tune Eon-seog speaks at a press briefing on Nov. 9, 2025, on the Nationwide Meeting concerning prosecutors’ determination to not enchantment a court docket ruling on the Daejang growth corruption case. (Yonhap)
The Individuals Energy Occasion, then again, has gone on the offensive, claiming that there was stress from the administration to fold the investigation.
“The forfeiture of the enchantment by the prosecutors is clearly a dereliction of obligation and an abuse of energy,” PPP ground chief Tune Eon-seog mentioned at a press convention on the Nationwide Meeting on Sunday.
“What must be revealed and disclosed is whether or not or not there was outdoors stress to forgo the enchantment,” he added.
In remarks directed at Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho, who’s suspected of expressing opposition to the enchantment to prosecutors, Tune mentioned, “Was that purely the Justice Ministry’s place, or was the ministry performing on orders from someplace larger up the facility ladder?”
“The supply and scope of the surface affect have to be revealed,” he added.
Relating to Kim Byung-kee’s suggestion that he would assessment measures for a parliamentary inquiry and listening to and the creation of a everlasting particular counsel concerning the group of prosecutors who investigated the Daejang corruption case, Tune mentioned, “I suggest holding an emergency Nationwide Meeting interpellation session on the matter instantly.”
PPP lawmakers on the Nationwide Meeting’s Laws and Judiciary Committee are demanding that Choo Mi-ae, the Democratic lawmaker who chairs the committee, maintain a plenary session on Monday to provoke the process for an pressing interpellation session.
By Ki Min-do, workers reporter; Kim Hae-jeong, workers reporter
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