2023-09-15 03:25:00
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The so-called ‘judicial abuse’ incident in which the National Court Administration committed illegal acts such as interfering with front-line trials during the time of Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae.
The prosecution requested seven years in prison for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae, who was identified as the person responsible for the suspicion and was sent to trial.
The prosecution claimed, “A systematic crime was committed for an act that could be called an achievement by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.”
Reporter Jin Seon-min reports.
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Prosecutors requested seven years in prison for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae.
Former Supreme Court Justice Park Byung-dae was sentenced to five years in prison, and former Supreme Court Justice Ko Young-han was sentenced to four years in prison.
It has been 4 years and 7 months since the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was brought to trial as a defendant, and the number of trials has been 290.
The prosecution announced this today (15th) at the final hearing on charges of abuse of power and other charges against former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang and former Supreme Court Justices Park Byeong-dae and Koh Young-han.
The prosecution stated the reason for the sentence, saying, “The National Court Administration contacted judges to inform them of the advantages and disadvantages of the judiciary according to the trial conclusion and induced a specific ruling, thereby destroying the environment for judicial independence,” and “an incident that destroyed trust in our country’s judicial system.” .
Previously, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang was arrested and indicted in 2019 on charges of authorizing or directly ordering abuse of judicial administrative power, including interfering with front-line trials in collusion with former Deputy Director of the National Court Administration Lim Jong-heon.
Chief Justice Yang is accused of unfairly interfering in various trials, including compensation lawsuits for victims of Japanese forced labor, in order to receive support from the Blue House and others for the introduction of an appellate court, which was a key project of the Supreme Court.
In addition, there are suspicions that some judges were designated as so-called ‘water-related judges’, giving them personnel disadvantages, and that internal case information and trends were collected through dispatched judges to keep the Constitutional Court in check.
So far, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang has strongly denied the charges, saying, “The indictment was created as if the Creator created something from nothing.”
The court plans to sentence the former Supreme Court Chief Justice and Supreme Court Justices as early as the end of this year or as early as next year.
This is Jin Seon-min of KBS News.
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