Kim Soo-hong Appointed Head of Prosecution Investigation Task Force to Probe Abuse of Power; Na Ha-na Named Prosecution Division Director

Kim Soo-hong, Director of the Prosecution Division at the Ministry of Justice, has been appointed as the head of the fact-finding task force tasked with investigating allegations of prosecutorial abuse of power in cases such as the illegal North Korea remittance scandal involving Ssangbangwool and the Daejang-dong development scandal.
The Ministry of Justice announced the personnel appointment today (June 23), transferring Director Kim to lead the fact-finding team under the Committee for the Future of Prosecution and Human Rights (Future Committee).
The appointment takes effect on June 24.
Na Ha-na, currently Director of Policy Planning at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, will succeed Kim as the new Director of the Prosecution Division, while Lee Geon-pyo, currently the Criminal Intelligence 2 Officer at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, will fill the vacancy as the new Director of Policy Planning.
The task force will open a temporary office at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office to begin its investigation.
The team is set to receive cases selected by the Future Committee or those recommended for further investigation, verify the facts, and review the case records.
On June 10, the Ministry of Justice launched the Future Committee, composed of external members, with the goal of uncovering the truth behind allegations of human rights violations and the abuse of prosecutorial authority.
In its first meeting, the Future Committee selected seven cases for its initial investigation, including the Ssangbangwool North Korea remittance case, the Daejang-dong case, the case involving former Democratic Research Institute Vice Director Kim Yong, the Wirye New Town case, the West Sea public official killing case, the statistics manipulation case, and the alleged false reporting case regarding the defamation of Yoon Suk Yeol.
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