Han Dong-soo, Chief of the Inspection Division, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office [사진제공 : 연합뉴스]
It is known that Han Dong-soo, head of the Inspection Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, who led the disciplinary action against Yoon when President Yoon Seok-yeol was the Prosecutor General, recently expressed his resignation.
In April 2020, Director Han said that he would supervise then Prosecutor Dong-Hoon Han in relation to the ‘Channel A Case’, and in November of the same year, when then Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae requested disciplinary action against President Yoon, he appeared as a witness at the disciplinary committee. has been at odds with
Director Han is also currently under investigation by the prosecution on charges of omission of key data from the report to the Ministry of Justice while investigating the leak of the indictment of Senior Prosecutor Lee Seong-yoon.
Director Han’s term of office was extended until October next year due to the Ministry of Justice’s decision to reappoint last year, but it is observed that the scope of his movements has narrowed, as the chief prosecutor who publicly criticized himself in the prosecution’s internal network was appointed to the head of the Inspection Division under his direct subordinate in May this year. has been raised.
The chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, who is at the level of the prosecutor, has been appointed through an external public call since 2008, and is in charge of the inspection branches installed in 5 high prosecutors’ offices across the country.
