Independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon posts on Facebook on Saturday
Criticizes police over probe linked to Kim Seung-won nomination
Han: 'The train runs on even as the dog barks'
Independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon on Saturday criticized police over their investigation into a complaint filed against him in connection with allegations that confidential prosecution materials related to Justice Minister nominee Kim Seung-won were leaked, asking whether police had also "decided to become the teeth of the Democratic Party's oppa."
Han posted on his Facebook page that he had "never seen police move so swiftly on a single politically motivated complaint with no specific substance or basis." He also shared an image of a news article reporting that police plan to question Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Kim Dong-a as the complainant on Sunday, in connection with a case in which the ruling party filed a complaint against Han on charges including disclosure of official secrets.
Han said Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok was "sending in the police because he barks but doesn't have the guts to bite," adding that "the Democratic Party lawmaker being sent to the police is Lee Jae Myung's Daejang-dong lawyer. Enjoy your lovely little relationship."
He went on to say that police had "so little to do" despite a "gaping hole in public safety caused by the abolition of supplementary investigations," and closed with: "The train runs on even as the dog barks. I will keep going, looking only at the people."
Earlier, Democratic Party lawmaker Kim filed a complaint Monday with the Korean National Police Agency's National Investigation Headquarters against an unidentified person who allegedly passed internal prosecution documents related to Han and the nominee to Han, on charges including disclosure of official secrets. The case is currently under investigation by the Seoul Yeongdeungpo Police Station. The ruling party and Kim contend that materials Han made public while raising allegations about the nominee's "new drug lobbying" scandal constituted confidential investigative records that Han had illegally obtained and disclosed.
Acting Justice Minister Lee Jin-su told the National Assembly during a government interpellation session on Wednesday that it would constitute a crime if the investigative records disclosed during Han's allegations against the nominee had been leaked from within the prosecution. Lee said the documents "appear to be materials not compiled into investigative or evidentiary records, and since they are reports on case handling, they must not be leaked," adding that "providing investigative materials is fundamentally a crime, constituting either disclosure of official secrets or a violation of the Personal Information Protection Act." The Ministry of Justice has launched a fact-finding process to determine how documents related to the investigation of the nominee came to be leaked externally.
Han, however, maintains that he did not receive the materials from prosecutors. At a press conference at the National Assembly on Thursday, he said he was "confident about the source" and had "no reason to hide behind parliamentary immunity," which is why he continued to post on Facebook.
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