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

The 2nd Comprehensive Independent Counsel team led by Kwon Chang-young, which is investigating remaining suspicions following the three independent counsels, has indicted former Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung without detention on charges including taking part in important missions of an insurrection.

In a press notice released this afternoon (the 20th), the comprehensive independent counsel team announced that it has indicted former Prosecutor General Shim without detention for charges that include organizing procedures for dispatching prosecutors to the Joint Investigation Headquarters of the Martial Law Command immediately after the declaration of the December 3 emergency martial law and having them draw up a list of dispatched prosecutors.

The independent counsel team explained that he is also charged with having officials draft a document reviewing jurisdictional authority for investigations and trials regarding violators of martial law decrees, and ordering a review of the formation of an internal dedicated prosecution team for martial law decree violators.

The independent counsel team also applied charges of abuse of authority to obstruct the exercise of rights, judging that former Prosecutor General Shim obstructed special investigation prosecutors from filing an immediate appeal against the cancellation of former President Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest.

In addition, concluding that former Supreme Prosecutors' Office Planning and Coordination Department Head Jeon Mu-gon conspired in the crimes with former Prosecutor General Shim, the independent counsel team indicted him on charges of taking part in important missions of an insurrection and abuse of authority to obstruct the exercise of rights.

Previously, the independent counsel team requested arrest warrants for former Prosecutor General Shim and former Department Head Jeon last month, but the court dismissed the warrants, stating that it was difficult to view them as posing a risk of destroying evidence or fleeing.

The independent counsel team stated, "We will do our utmost to prove the charges in the upcoming trial proceedings."
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