Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit "Leave the warrant to the police"... President Yoon's "Subcontractors of the Construction"

[Anchor]
The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit is in a position to hand over only the execution of an arrest warrant for President Yoon to the police and maintain the right to investigate.

While the legal profession pointed out that it was unprecedented, President Yoon strongly criticized it as an investigation without legal basis.

I'll connect you to the legal team reporter on the spot.

Youngsoo Kim, reporter Lee Kyung-guk, please come out.

[Reporter]
It's in the high-ranking government official's criminal investigation office.

First, I will briefly summarize the contents of the police special team's briefing a while ago.

He said he received an official letter from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit at around 7 a.m. today to command the execution of arrest warrants and search warrants.

He said he reviewed this internally and decided that it was legally controversial.

He said he would continue to discuss with the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit.

In summary, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit asked me to execute the arrest warrant, but since this can be a legal problem, I think it can be seen as the purpose of executing and investigating the arrest warrant with the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit as we have done so far.

Let me repeat the process so far, the process that happened today.

As I told you, the news was that the execution of the arrest warrant was handed over to the police this morning.

The execution deadline for the arrest warrant was midnight today, so much attention was paid to whether to re-enforce it.

So the reporters were also sudden, but after the news became known, Oh Dong-woon, the head of the airborne division, went to work.

There were a lot of reporters at this time, so I asked a question.

Let's look at the situation at that time.

[Reporter]
The controversy continues to this day. The police said they would investigate with the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit again.

Attention is drawn to the background, reporter Lee Kyung-guk, what is the background?

[Reporter]
After this was known, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit held a briefing in a hurry.

Lee Jae-seung, deputy prosecutor of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, explained that the police decided that it was better to execute an arrest warrant because the field command system needed to be unified.

At the same time, he actually acknowledged his limitations, saying he had no expertise in executing warrants.

It was expected that there would be resistance from the security service if the arrest warrant was executed, but Deputy Prosecutor Lee Jae-seung said he did not expect to block the execution in this way.

At the same time, he said that it was judged that execution in the same way did not guarantee efficiency.

In the end, it is expected that it will be difficult to avoid criticism for lack of preparation in executing arrest warrants.

[Reporter]
It also explained the legal basis for the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to hand over the execution of arrest warrants to the police, and the legal basis is Article 81 of the Criminal Procedure Act and Article 200-6.Article

81 states that the arrest warrant is executed by the police under the direction of the prosecutor.

Article 200-6 applies mutatis mutandis to an arrest warrant as well as an arrest warrant.

In summary, the purpose is that the police can execute arrest warrants under the direction of the prosecutor of the Airborne Administration.

[Anchor]
The foreign ministers of South Korea and the U.S. met for the first time since the emergency martial law incident. You've heard the joint press conference. First of all, Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol reaffirmed that there is no vacuum in the South Korea-U.S. alliance.

He said that the Korea-U.S. alliance becomes stronger when the two countries are together in difficult times.

U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken also thanked him for his cooperation and leadership in difficult times. He also expressed his deep condolences on behalf of the American people regarding the Jeju Air Infinite Airport aircraft disaster.

He also stressed that the joint future design and capabilities remain strong in relation to the Korea-U.S. alliance.

This time, let's go to the briefing site of the National Police Agency's special investigation team.

It is explained that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit Act follows the Criminal Procedure Act because it has given the prosecutor of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit a role equivalent to that of a general prosecutor, but there is one controversial part.

According to Article 47 of the Corruption Investigations Unit Act, the command and supervision of judicial police officers in criminal investigations and the command and supervision of trial execution were excluded from the duties and powers of prosecutors of the Corruption Investigations Unit.

Therefore, as a result, there can be claims and refutations that the prosecutor of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit cannot direct the police to execute the arrest warrant.

In response, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit also said that the command and supervision of the trial were interpreted to include only direct parts related to the trial affairs, such as the execution of the sentence.

In today's back briefing, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit could consider handing over the case to the prosecution or the police, right?

[Reporter]
Correct.

You may remember that the investigation into the emergency martial law case last month was in full swing, and the investigation agencies were competitively investigating, causing confusion.

In the end, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit exercised the right to demand the transfer of the case to the prosecution and the police, and took over the case of President Yoon from both sides.

However, Lee Jae-seung, deputy chief of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, said today that he would not insist on the investigation of President Yoon for unnecessary reasons or proceed arbitrarily, and that he would consider transferring the case to the prosecution and police at some stage.

He also added that if the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit plays its role, the case will go to the prosecution, which has the right to prosecute, and if there is an independent counsel first, it will go to the independent counsel.

It seems difficult to avoid criticism that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which brought the incident with confidence, only wasted time in the end.

[Reporter]
Although the police said they would investigate again with the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, I think some point out that they gave President Yoon Suk Yeol an excuse to criticize him.

[Reporter]
Correct.
Yoon Gap-geun, a lawyer for President ∀
criticized that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit's appointment to the police to execute the arrest warrant is a "submission" of the execution of the warrant and another illegal act.

He then stressed that the Public Offices Act does not stipulate that some of the investigations are entrusted to other investigative agencies, and that the investigation cannot be entrusted to other agencies as if they are subcontracting some of the construction.Attorney

Yoon added that if the police go out to execute the warrant, it will be an abuse of authority, warning of strong legal action.

Finally, he argued that illegality is causing illegality, and that the Airborne and the police should follow due process rather than plotting a judicial rebellion with a trick.

[Reporter]
The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit said it would entrust the police with the execution of arrest warrants, and after that, the police have announced their position to be with the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit again.

So I think we need to hear the position of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit once again. I'll let you know once more as soon as I get additional coverage.

So far, the airlift has delivered it to you.