Jang Dong-hyeok: “Special counsel bill will bring down Lee administration ... all involved will be punished for distorting the law”

[Financial News] Jang Dong-hyeok, leader of the People Power Party, criticized the Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Prosecution on the 10th, saying, “This special counsel bill will bring down the Lee Jae Myung administration and hasten the day President Lee Jae Myung goes to prison.” He also claimed that everyone involved—including prosecutors assigned to the special counsel, the heads of the Public Prosecution Office, the National Police Agency and the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency, the justice minister, Democratic Party of Korea lawmakers and Cheong Wa Dae officials—would be punished for distorting the law.
At an on-site party lawmakers’ meeting held in front of the fountain at Cheongwadae Sarangchae that day, Jang said, “This special counsel bill is the culmination of Lee Jae Myung’s jailbreak project, and a jailbreak bill to get Lee Jae Myung, who should be in prison, out.”
Jang claimed that all the prosecution and judicial reforms led by the government and ruling party were part of President Lee’s “jailbreak project.” Citing, one after another, plans to increase the number of Supreme Court justices, introduce the crime of distorting the law, abolish the Prosecution Service, and establish the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency and the Public Prosecution Office, he said, “They are all for Lee Jae Myung’s jailbreak project, and this special counsel bill is its final culmination.”
He went on, “With this, the rule of law in the Republic of Korea has completely collapsed,” adding, “If you invent a fabricated investigation out of nothing and somehow push it toward a fabricated indictment, that in itself is fabrication.”
Jang said, “The 300 people assigned to the special counsel will ultimately be punished for distorting the law,” adding, “The heads of the Public Prosecution Office, the National Police Agency and the SCIA, as well as the justice minister, will all be punished for distorting the law.”
He continued, criticizing the move: “The DPK lawmakers who passed this bill must also be punished by law as accomplices, and all Cheong Wa Dae aides involved will be punished for distorting the law.”
The Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Prosecution was expected to be submitted to the State Council on the 10th and then approved, but Cheong Wa Dae said it plans to put the bill before the State Council sometime next week. Jang said of this, “It is probably a ploy to shift all responsibility onto the prime minister and other cabinet members out of fear that additional charges will be brought against him.”
He also stressed, “The dispatch of personnel to the Public Prosecution Office, the SCIA and the special counsel must be refused. The Constitutional Court of Korea must declare this law unconstitutional.” He added, “If the Constitutional Court cannot declare this law unconstitutional, it will no longer have any reason to exist.”
Jang said, “In the next general and presidential elections, the people will give us the strength to hold the Lee Jae Myung administration accountable, punish everyone who passed this outrageous Lee Jae Myung jailbreak bill and everyone who supported it, and bring them before the judgment of history and the law.” He added, “If impeachment is necessary, they will give us the power to impeach. They will also give us the power needed to resume trials.”

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