The trial regarding the ‘Seongnam FC sponsorship allegations’ involving Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was adjourned 50 minutes after it began as the presiding judge ordered a prosecutor to leave the courtroom. The Suwon District Court’s Seongnam Branch ruled that the participation of prosecutor A, who was appointed as a “one-day duty agent” and is not affiliated with the local prosecutorial office, violated the Prosecutors’ Office Act, and ordered their removal from the court.
Prosecutor A, who had investigated the case while previously with the Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, is now attached to the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office. In response, Prosecutor A and the other four prosecutors present expressed their intention to “immediately file an objection and request recusal of the judges.”
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