Contact Admin. Government authorities are clashing over the sex-for-influence case that saw a year-old contractor surnamed Yoon accused of offering sexual entertainment as bribes to influential people at a vacation home in Wonju, Gangwon. The trigger for the conflict was Kim Hak-eui, who resigned as vice minister of the Ministry of Justice on Thursday after being implicated as one of the suspected high-ranking government officials that attended the sex parties. The Blue House later nominated Kim as the vice minister of the Justice Ministry after receiving the report and also because the year-old Kim strongly denied his allegations.
The difference in the reports caused Kim Ki-yong to be replaced as commissioner general of the NPA, according to the police. The police and prosecution also came into a conflict each other over the case.
The prosecution currently maintains that the police, who have been opposed to the revised laws over the criminal investigation jurisdiction that stated police be supervised by prosecutors in every process of investigation, including the preliminary stage, have targeted another high-ranking prosecution official. The prosecution believes that the police are targeting high-level prosecutors. However, the police stated that they just came across Kim while investigating Yoon, saying they never targeted a particular prosecutor.
While the government authorities are fighting over the scandal, an incumbent high-ranking government official, who is only identified with his age, 57, was questioned as an informant, according to the police yesterday.
He is the first incumbent government official questioned in the case by the police. The police said that the official was in charge of a series of national projects carried out between and By Chung Kang-hyun, Kwon Sang-soo [sakwon80 joongang.
