Kim Jeong-hwan Tapped as SCIA-Side Chief of Insurrection Special Investigation Headquarters... Talks Continue

[Financial News] The Serious Crimes Investigation Agency (SCIA), which is preparing to launch an “Insurrection Special Investigation Headquarters” jointly with the police, has tapped Kim Jeong-hwan, head of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau at the Seoul Regional SCIA, as the SCIA’s chief for the headquarters.
According to legal circles on the 10th, the SCIA decided to appoint Director Kim as its chief for the Insurrection Special Investigation Headquarters, which will investigate remaining cases related to the December 3 emergency martial law declaration.
A graduate of the 37th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, Kim is a former prosecutor who has served as chief of the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Division at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea, chief of Financial Investigation Division 2 at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office, and a prosecutor seconded to the Joint Investigation Headquarters on Religious-Political Corruption, among other roles.
Superintendent General Kang Il-gu, who has led the dedicated team handling cases transferred from the three special counsel investigations at the National Office of Investigation of the National Police Agency, is being mentioned as the police-side chief.
The SCIA and the police have recently continued working-level consultations on launching the special headquarters. The two agencies are reportedly coordinating on options including a joint-chief structure, with each agency appointing a chief, and a chief-and-deputy-chief structure. The number of personnel to be seconded to the special headquarters and the location of its offices have also yet to be finalized.
The Insurrection Special Investigation Headquarters is expected to investigate a broad range of insurrection-related cases, including remaining cases transferred from the three special counsel investigations and the Second Comprehensive Special Counsel Team (Special Counsel Kwon Chang-young). After concluding its investigation, the comprehensive special counsel team previously handed 46 cases back to the police.
Special Counsel Kwon had proposed forming a special investigation headquarters involving multiple investigative agencies working jointly when the investigation’s findings were announced last August.
 
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