During the investigation of Colonel Park Jeong-hoon’s complaint
Confirm the statement with the military prosecutor’s office
Im Seong-geun mentions the need for investigation
It has been confirmed that a prosecutor from the Navy Prosecution Team reviewed the submission of an opinion calling for a thorough investigation of the commander of the division to which Corporal Chae belonged in relation to the Corporal Chae incident last year. There were many front-line opinions that mentioned the division commander’s responsibility, but due to the nature of the army, the division commander’s authority was so strong that there were fears that a proper investigation would not be conducted.
According to the coverage of the Kyunghyang Shinmun on the 29th, Prosecutor A, a member of the Navy Procuratorate, made this statement during the investigation of the mutiny case of former Marine Corps investigation team leader Park Jeong-hoon by the Ministry of the National Defense Prosecutor’s Office (military prosecutor’s office) in October last year.
Prosecutor A stated, “I think everyone who has served in the military can understand the power of the division commander,” and added, “I thought investigating the division commander and holding him criminally accountable would not be an easy task in a army with a strong hierarchy of superiors and subordinates.” After Corporal Chae died in July last year while searching for a citizen who went missing due to heavy rain, he reviewed the accidental death incident records to direct the disposal of the body of the Corporal Chae.
Prosecutor A stated, “I personally had the experience of feeling like a real burden while working as a military prosecutor and investigating officers’ cases in the field, and I thought that investigating general-level officers was incomparable.”
He said, “Considering the position that the division commander holds in the army and his enormous authority, I thought it would be difficult to properly investigate the case,” and “So, since my discharge is not far away, I, who am free from the military hierarchy, take up the gun and conduct a thorough investigation into the division commander “I even thought about filing an opinion saying it was necessary,” he said the Marine Corps investigative team would be able to ease the burden if he used the prosecutor’s opinion as the basis for his investigation of the division commander.
The incident report is said to have contained statements from those involved in the search operation together with Corporal Chae, regardless of whether they were officers or soldiers, pointing to Lim Seong-geun, then commander of the 1st Marine Division, as the responsible for the accident. Responsible person. For this reason, the purpose of Prosecutor A’s statement is that he believed it was necessary to investigate the division commander.
Attorney A stated that although he did not submit a written opinion after discussions with his superior, he remained interested.
Prosecutor A said: “It is true that I was continuously interested in the case because I feared that the case might be buried under the power of a general-level officer.”
Prosecutor A said he heard in early August last year that the Marine Corps investigative team was under pressure from outside the burden investigation, I wonder if military prosecutors should also play a role.”
At the same time, we examined the legal principles and precedents to determine whether the responsibility of the division commander could be recognized and turned it over to the Marine Corps investigative team.
However, Prosecutor A stated that he “disagreed” with former investigative team leader Park’s assertion that the findings of the Marine Corps investigative team’s investigation had been thoroughly discussed and confirmed with prosecutors military. He said that what he conveyed was not the official opinion of Navy prosecutors, but a personal review.
However, Prosecutor A stated, “I thought they made a very courageous decision based on their conscience” in transferring the case to the police according to the schedule originally established by the Marine Corps investigative team.
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