Jeong Jeom-sik Calls Indictments of Na Kyung-won, Kim Gi-hyeon, Yoon Sang-hyun and Kwon Young-jin a "Public Humiliation"

[Financial News] After People Power Party lawmakers Na Kyung-won, Kim Gi-hyeon, Yoon Sang-hyun and Kwon Young-jin were indicted on charges of obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol, floor leader Jeong Jeom-sik criticized the move on the 14th as a "public humiliation indictment." Earlier that day, the Second Comprehensive Special Counsel indicted them without detention on charges of obstruction of special official duties.
Jeong said on social networking service that the Second Comprehensive Special Counsel, with its investigation period nearing its end, was "handing out a final round of indictments before shutting down."
Jeong said, "Like a comprehensive special counsel boasting a 65% rejection rate for warrants, this is a public humiliation indictment based solely on political calculations rather than proof of the allegations or legal review." He added, "For obstruction of official duties to be established, there must be an act of assault or intimidation. What assault or intimidation did our party lawmakers commit at the time?"
He continued, "Even Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-seok, who had styled himself as a weapon of opposition suppression, reviewed the investigation records and chose not to indict in this case." He argued that the Second Comprehensive Special Counsel, after 180 days of investigation, moved ahead with the indictment irresponsibly out of fear of being criticized as a counsel that came away empty-handed, simply thinking, 'Let's indict first.'
Jeong said, "In the end, this is a forced indictment meant to use prosecutorial power to politically humiliate opposition lawmakers, and a flattering indictment intended to show off to the government and ruling party, which extended the investigation period by another 90 days on top of the initial 90." He added that if the Democratic Party of Korea, which fell into the dogma of separating investigation and prosecution and even abolished supplementary investigative authority, should begin reforming the special counsel system to curb abuse of indictment power by a political special prosecutor that holds both investigative and prosecutorial authority.
He also wrote, "The Second Comprehensive Special Counsel has forgotten its core purpose of uncovering the truth about crimes and is flooding the public with politically motivated indictments." He added, "The responsibility for the special counsel's reckless barrage of political indictments will ultimately fall on the Lee Jae Myung administration, which has used the special counsel as a tool of fear politics and opposition suppression."

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