Along with the God of Law - Chapter 387



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387.

“We will begin the case. Please gather in front of the prosecutor’s office.”

Kang Hyun picked up the phone and called the people together. They were Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik and Prosecutor Ahn Ji-won.

Since it’s currently under review, this method worked better than having to go into the office or call all the inspectors together.

As expected, the two appeared to Kang-Hyeon right away as if they were ready, and Kang-Hyeon wasn’t particularly surprised that they showed up so quickly.

It was natural, since the two prosecutors in the trial division under him were keeping a close eye on him.

Of course, the way they looked at each other was a little different… .

Anyway, Baek Hoon-sik and Ahn Ji-won were somewhat surprised by some of the instructions Kang Hyun gave and asked questions.

“Without reporting to your superiors?”

“The trial is suspended due to the audit, so there is no need to report.”

“But, Mr. First Vice President… .”

“You have no choice, Mr. First Vice President.”

“yes?”

“If you did something wrong, you can endure it, and if you didn’t, you can gain strength. Isn’t good being good?”

Kang Hyun briefly explained that it was a good thing, then wrapped up the conversation and headed straight to the briefing room. The two prosecutors followed him.

Within minutes of meeting, plans were already tightly laid out.

The two just had to move quickly and swiftly as instructed by Kang Hyun, and Kang Hyun had to trigger the incident in the briefing room that had been opened in advance.

His instructions were as follows:

I will jump right into the Song Doo-seung case without reporting to the vice-chairman. If a problem arises, I will place all responsibility on Kang Hyun himself.

He added that since the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office is currently under investigation, Kang Hyun cannot take action himself, and that is why he is giving the two of them an important mission.

The two were surprised and took a moment to collect their thoughts.

‘… There’s going to be another uproar in the media.’

Of course, both of them could guess that what was happening now was too good for the media to handle.

The court intentionally treated a person as a ‘non-existent person’. There are even suspicions that the missing person’s declaration was not made through a normal judgment but may have been made in a rushed manner.

The media will give it major coverage and public sentiment will be swayed.

However, it is difficult for a single chief prosecutor to strongly command a case through his or her own actions.

The relationship between the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and the Supreme Court, the Central District Prosecutors’ Office and the Central District Court, and the prosecutors and judges is a mysterious one, and political squabbles are bound to come into play. It is too much of a burden to arbitrarily direct a case based on a judgment that it is the ‘right thing to do.’

By the way, what about Kang Hyun’s movements?

‘You’re moving outside the command range of the First Vice-Chief. No, it’s as if you don’t even care.’

It’s all about gratitude, inspection, and so on.

Kang Hyun was free and strong.

It was the same for a prosecutor like Baek Hoon-sik, and it was the same for investigators and working-level officials.

The person who was particularly surprised was Ahn Ji-won.

‘Was it natural to act this way when the opportunity came?’

It seemed as if he had initially left the Joint Investigation Department for fame and promotion and entered the Trial Department under the First Vice Minister.

Now that I look at it, Kang Hyun didn’t come under Do Jin-guk and put the leash around his own neck.

It was a complete mistake to think that Kang Hyun was a person who believed in his own abilities and built and maintained his power by tightroping around fame, honor, and superiors.

He wasn’t trying to look good to Do Jin-guk. He was here in the 5th trial, fighting with Do Jin-guk over ‘who’s holding the leash’.

He was talking to a deputy chief prosecutor at the level of a district prosecutor. It was as if he was clearing out his position to fight a bigger enemy.

‘No, the problem isn’t that you have to be mindful of the deputy director’s feelings, but you also don’t have to be mindful of the inspector’s feelings.’

It was as if Kang Hyun had placed the chief prosecutor outside the ring and was having a one-sided boxing match with the first chief. The audience could have guessed that the first chief would not be able to land a single hit.

“Please reconfirm the requirements and procedures for canceling the declaration of disappearance, and review the legal principles of the competent court. I will prepare all the documents.”

“Oh, yes!”

When Kang Hyun gave rapid-fire instructions to Ahn Ji-won, who was lost in thought for a moment, she opened her notebook in surprise.

“It doesn’t take that long to receive a decision on the acceptance after filing a request to revoke a missing person’s declaration, but this case is not going to end that easily, as there are two subjects at once, and the name ‘Kang Yoon-gi’, which is not recorded in any records, is being used, and Song Doo-seung was declared missing and presumed dead even though there is no record of his resident registration being deleted.

“Okay, I will prepare as instructed.”

An Ji-won responded to Kang Hyun’s quick and strong instructions like a soldier. Kang Hyun even told her that the case would now begin properly and that it was okay to call in the prosecutors who were on vacation, and then sent her straight to the 5th division.

“And, Inspector Baek.”

Next, Kang Hyun stopped Baek Hoon Sik, who was trying to follow him, and began to give him detailed instructions on the incident.

“I will entrust you with the trial to cancel the declaration of disappearance. The purpose of the petition to cancel the declaration of disappearance is to ‘protect the rights and interests of the person who has been declared missing or dead.’ Protect Mr. Kang Yoon-ki. ‘Human rights.’ Please proceed with care and do not forget these words.”

“Me, me?”

“Yes. From now on. Oh, by the way, the cancellation trial will be held at the Central District Court, not the Family Court. Chief Ahn Ji-won will support Prosecutor Baek, and if you need anything, please give instructions to anyone in the trial department, regardless of seniority.”

“Yes? Well, but.”

“I’m doing this because Prosecutor Baek is the right person for this case. There’s no more or less meaning to it.”

“…yes.”

Baek Hoon-sik also nodded at Kang Hyun’s firm tone and stepped back.

His face was meaningful, as he was carrying a heavy mission.

What he was after was the Central District Court. The target was not only the chief judge, the senior chief judge, but also the powerful chief judge of the Central District Court, who was somewhere between the vice-minister and the minister.

“I will do my best.”

“Okay. Then let’s each disperse.”

After sending Baek Hoon-sik away as well, Kang Hyun entered the briefing room to refute the ‘nonsense’ excuses that the head of the family court had made to himself and the media.

Click, click!

-The family court has issued a statement!

-You claim that it is just an administrative error! What do you think?

Kang Hyun’s eyes were already elsewhere.

The targets are not judges outside the power relations, such as the head of the family court.

Some judges of the Central District Court had an implicit alliance with the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, especially the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s Chief of Staff Wang Nam-ryong.

For example, the chief criminal investigator of the district court.

Click, click!

-What happened at the court?

-Why did you raise the suspicion that the identity of a mid-level prosecutor was deleted in court? Please answer!

Kang Hyun, who sat down without preparing even a single piece of paper, took his time and took a deep breath.

I don’t usually do this, but things were a little different now.

As soon as he made ‘this statement’ other than a rebuttal at this briefing, the entire neighborhood above would have been turned upside down.

The First Vice Minister will fall over in shock, the Chief Prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office will urgently hold a meeting, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office will immediately issue a statement of opposition, and the Central District Court will fall into the pit of hell.

He said.

“First of all, let me say this. The reason why Mr. Song Doo-seung unfortunately became a ‘non-existent person’ and a deceased person whose name is not even on the record is because there was some kind of collusion between the Public Security Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and the courts in the past.”

* * *

A voice from a corner of his past memories tormented Wang Nam-ryong.

-Oh, we’re in big trouble. There’s Song Doo-seung! He keeps having seizures, passing out, waking up, and he can’t even tell what’s right or wrong and he can’t even speak.

-It’s already been a week. I can’t eat or drink water. I keep having seizures, so I have to tie myself to the bed.

“shit.”

It was a brutal incident that happened at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Public Security Department when he was a prosecutor. He looked at his two hands, then closed his eyes as he recalled the past further.

At that time, there was an ‘interrogation room’ in the basement of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.

It was very different from a normal interrogation room. It was a place that existed for ‘torture’ rather than ‘interrogation’.

Anyone who passes through there will have their mind restored.

They tie you upside down, beat you with a baseball bat and a wooden club, and pour hot water on you. After repeating this for several days, your thoughts will change.

At that time, Wang Nam-ryong thought.

Justice blossoms in such cruelty. This is a necessary evil, it is inevitable.

Thud! Thud!

So he hit himself a lot. He hit himself, and he hit himself again, and he poured water on himself.

But occasionally, persistent people like Song Doo-seung would appear.

But it didn’t matter. He had the strong organization called ‘Prosecution’ behind him to protect him.

The then Minister of Public Security, Bae Seong-shin, gave a simple answer.

-It’s okay because you can breathe.

Ugh.

“I’ll at least clean up the mess properly before I go and complain!”

He couldn’t continue his thoughts due to his anger, and crumpled up the information report document that was coming up from within.

What just happened was a pretty big problem.

[Information Report, Central District Court and Family Court. Third Report on the Case of the Inability to Cancel the Declaration of Missing Persons Presumed Dead]

– The police are investigating the public official in charge of destroying the resident records themselves due to the reasons why the Song Du-seung resident record could not be deleted. There is a suspicion of solicitation and corruption.

A public official who gave a bribe to destroy Song Du-seung’s resident record was caught.

It’s still an internal report, but the news will break soon.

It was an easy task at the time because computers were not yet developed, and I never thought that this would be discovered over time.

“It’s already caught… I see.”

Although he had retired after serving as a local mayor, as long as the media and public sentiment are in an uproar, the police investigation will be swift, experienced, and relentless.

People like this whose names I can’t even remember now.

For example, civil servants who helped erase records or employees who participated in the torture at the time.

It was only a matter of time before they moved and made their voices heard.

“Damn it. That bastard Kang Hyun.”

He was about to swear at the air, but realized that there was no point in swearing at Kang-Hyeon, who couldn’t hear him, so he stood up.

There are things you have to do to survive. The person I was back then and the person I am now are different.

The prestige is higher and the power is greater, so there is no need to be afraid. You just have to be careful about your every action.

There was no one to help me. I had to escape the attack on my own.

What will Bae Seong-shin, who is already a puppet of Dae-jin, do?

And what would change if the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Anti-Corruption Department, which he directly commands, moved?

How can someone like Director Lee Seung-bae, who is drooling and ecstatic just from getting a position despite being incompetent, help?

I had to move myself.

“As a person, you have to cross a stone bridge while tapping on it.”

He inserted the key into the safe in the corner of the airborne division’s office, turned it, entered the password, and opened the door.

Knock, click!

A bundle of ledgers.

They were all thick ledgers, and he had a hard time moving them all at once.

“Treasures, please save me.”

He hurriedly picked them up and started calling somewhere.

“… Haha. Okay, I see. This reporter has a good story to tell.”

Chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, Wang Nam-ryong. He is a person who does not trust people and always prepares something in case of a crisis.

This time it was the same. I had hidden a deadly weapon in preparation for such a situation.

Click.

After he finished the call, he immediately filtered out the necessary materials from his treasures. These included a concise report, photographs, business cards, and ledgers.

The title was like this.

[Information Report, Suspicion of Special Appointment of Prosecutor Jeong Ji-eun]

Family relationship registration book, list of interviewers, review report on possibility of falsification of submitted documents, and various materials used to falsify Prosecutor Jeong Jung-heon’s explanation.

“It’s a pretty cool collection, I think.”

When the media catches up to you, you’ll use the media. To do that, you’ll fabricate any suspicions you can.

It was an ability and virtue that those in power must possess.

“Just stalling for time and changing the trend is enough. What would that little brat do? He’d just watch his seniors get screwed.”

Wang Nam-ryong smiled happily in the empty room. It was because he thought that he would clearly show what would happen to those who were targeting him and sabotaging him.

“Did you call?”

A large man in a black suit was standing next to Wang Nam-ryong, waiting for instructions. He was not an employee of the Airborne Division’s annex.

“Yes. From now on, release people to monitor Kang Hyun. Report everything he does and thinks about.”

“All right.”

Even after all the instructions were completed and the big man disappeared, Wang Namryong sat there for a long time, gnashing his teeth as if his uneasy feeling had not gone away.

A guy named Kang Hyeon.

It really wasn’t an easy opponent.