Comprehensive Special Counsel Indicts Former Prosecutor General Sim Woo-jung Without Detention Over Alleged Complicity in Insurrection

The 2nd Comprehensive Special Counsel team led by Kwon Chang-young, which is investigating remaining suspicions following the three special counsels, has indicted former Prosecutor General Sim Woo-jung on charges including participation in an important mission of an insurrection.

In a media announcement this afternoon (August 20), the special counsel team stated that it has indicted Sim without detention for charges that include organizing the procedures for dispatching prosecutors to the Joint Investigation Headquarters of the Martial Law Command immediately after the proclamation of the emergency martial law on December 3, and having a list of dispatched prosecutors drawn up.

The special counsel team explained that Sim is also charged with having documents drawn up to review investigative and trial jurisdictions for violators of the martial law decree, and ordering the review of forming a dedicated internal prosecution investigation team for decree violators.

Furthermore, the special counsel team concluded that Sim obstructed special investigation prosecutors from filing an immediate appeal against the cancellation of former President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention, thereby applying charges of abuse of authority to obstruct the exercise of rights.

In addition, the special counsel team concluded that Jeon Mu-gon, former head of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office Planning and Coordination Department, conspired in the crimes with Sim, and indicted him on charges of participating in an important mission of an insurrection and abuse of authority to obstruct the exercise of rights.

Previously, last month, the special counsel team requested arrest warrants for Sim and Jeon, but the court dismissed the warrants, stating that it was difficult to view them as having concerns for destroying evidence or fleeing.

The special counsel team stated, "We will do our utmost to prove the allegations during the subsequent trial proceedings."
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