Korean Government Attempts to Gather Evidence to Destroy Political Rival Yoon Seok-youl
The Moon administration as expected is moving forward with attempting to tarnish former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl before the upcoming Presidential election:
A state anti-corruption investigative agency will question a senior prosecutor this week as a witness for its probe into Yoon Seok-youl, a former prosecutor general and one of the leading presidential hopefuls, over abuse of power allegations, sources said Sunday, three months after the probe began.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) will call in Lim Eun-jeong, a prosecutor in charge of inspection affairs at the Ministry of Justice, Wednesday for questioning into allegations Yoon abused his power as a prosecutor general to interfere with an investigation by prosecutors on a high-profile criminal case involving former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook.
Yoon was booked in June for allegedly hindering the probe to protect the prosecutors accused of forcing prison inmates to make false testimonies against Han in 2011 and helping them evade indictment.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this is clearly an attempt to tarnish Yoon before the Presidential election and payback for going after a Korean left favorite, Han Myeong-sook who was the first female Prime Minister of Korea. She was jailed for bribery which the left claims was politically motivated.
I’ve finally figured out every high level politician in Korea is as crooked as the US politicians are, but there they tend to jail each other until the other side can get them out. I have to wonder if the jails aren’t segregated by political affiliation instead of level of crime…
Among Koreans, it’s an open secret that the former Prosecutor General has a lot of skeletons in his closet.
And they are bound to come out one way or another.
I don’t know if he did a full risk assessment before throwing his hat into the ring, but from the looks of it that risk assessment was probably based on “I’ll become immune when I become President” or “My fellow prosecutors will protect me.”
Of course I don’t know if it took into account of the possibilities that he may not become President and/or his fellow prosecutors may run for the hills, when he comes to them, hat in hand.
Besides him the one with the big target on the back is his wife.
I wonder if she will convince him to drop out, considering that she also has a lot of skeletons in her closet which are also slowing coming out and might not be prepared to get herself dragged into the mud.
Moon and his party are scared of Yoon, he seems to have a Trump-like popular appeal, and just like the DNC did with Trump, they will pull every dirty trick in the book to torpedo him before the election. My hope is to see Moon and his cabal in jail, where they belong.
Dirty tricks? That was the ‘pubbies.