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윤석열 대통령 측이 21일 "고위공직자범죄수사처(공수처)가 지난해 12월 6일 윤 대통령을 피의자로 명기한 압수수색 영장을 청구했다 기각된 것을 확인했다"고 밝혔다.
윤 대통령 변호인단 윤갑근 변호사는 이날 오후 기자회견을 열어 "대통령에 대한 수사기록 7만쪽을 뒤져 이 같은 자료들을 확인할 수 있었다"며 이같이 밝혔다.
윤 변호사는 실제 기각된 영장 실물을 취재진에게 보여주며 "지난해 12월 6일 압수수색 영장·통신 영장과 12월 8일 압수수색 영장, 12월 20일 체포영장 등 총 4건이 기각됐다"며 "이 중 2건이 윤 대통령에 대한 영장 기각"이라고 했다.
그러면서 "공수처가 지속 중앙지법에 청구하던 영장이 어느 시점부터 서부지법으로 넘어가게 된 것"이라며 "앞서 4번의 영장은 중앙지법에 청구했는지 (공수처가) 이유를 설명해야 하고, 당시 법원 영장 기각 사유는 추후 정리해 발표하겠다"고 했다.
또 "중앙지법에서 영장이 기각되자 서부지법에 영장을 청구했고, 압수수색 영장을 서부지법으로 바꿔 다시 청구했다"며 "우리법연구회가 서부지법에 있기 때문으로 불법을 동원해 대통령을 체포하고 수사한 것"이라고 했다.
이어 "공수처의 대통령 수사는 위법 수사가 쌓인 것이며 불법으로 대통령을 수사한 공수처에 책임을 물을 것"이라며 "법원은 대통령에 대한 구속을 신속히 취소해야 한다"고 했다.
더불어 "공수처는 중앙지법에 영장을 청구한 적 없다 하는데 명백한 거짓말로 국민을 기만한 것으로 중복 요청 등에 대해선 추후 확인이 필요하다"며 "압수수색 영장은 여러 명이 포함됐는데 중앙지법에서 기각당하자 서부지법으로 간 것으로 중앙지법에 지속 청구된 영장이 서부지법으로 갔으며 공수처는 대통령실 위치를 이야기하며 청구 설명했다"고 밝혔다.
윤 대통령 변호인단은 기자회견 후 "이날 추가로 기각됐다고 한 체포영장은 중앙지법 아닌 서울동부지법"이라고 공지한 가운데 조만간 오동운 공수처장 등 관계자들을 고발 예정이라고 밝혔다.
하지만 공수처는 윤 대통령 압수수색 영장은 서울중앙지법에 청구한 적 없다는 입장이나 통신영장은 청구한 적 있다고 한 가운데 "내란 수사 초 윤 대통령·국무위원에 대한 통신영장을 청구한 적 있고 기각된 사례는 있다"고 하는 등 윤 대통령 측 주장을 일부 부인하고 있어 주목된다.
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President Yoon's side: "The Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed 4 warrants that were rejected after requesting them from the Central and Eastern District Courts"
Confirmation of the fact that the warrant was rejected in the investigation record, 4 cases including search and seizure warrants and communication warrants were rejected by the Central and Eastern District Courts... 2 of these cases were dismissal of the warrant for President Yoon" Plans to indict the Public Prosecutor's Office Director Oh Dong-woon and other related parties
-kihong Kim reporter
President Yoon Seok-yeol's side announced on the 21st, "We have confirmed that the High-ranking Officials' Corruption Investigation Office (Public Prosecutor's Office) requested a search and seizure warrant on December 6th of last year, naming President Yoon as a suspect, but it was rejected."
Attorney Yoon Gap-geun, President Yoon's legal team, held a press conference that afternoon and said, "We were able to confirm these materials by going through 70,000 pages of investigation records on the president."
Attorney Yoon showed reporters the actual rejected warrants and said, "A total of four cases were rejected, including the search and seizure warrant and communications warrant on December 6th of last year, the search and seizure warrant on December 8th, and the arrest warrant on December 20th," and "Two of these were dismissed warrants for President Yoon."
In the process, he said, "At what point did the warrant that the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials had been requesting to the Central District Court change to the Western District Court?" and "The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials must explain why it requested the Central District Court for the previous four warrants, and the reasons for the court's dismissal of the warrants at that time will be organized and announced later."
He also said, "When the warrant was rejected by the Central District Court, we requested a warrant to the Western District Court, and then changed the search and seizure warrant to the Western District Court and requested it again," and "Because our law research group is in the Western District Court, they arrested and investigated the president illegally."
He continued, "The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials' investigation of the president is a result of accumulated illegal investigations, and we will hold the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials responsible for investigating the president illegally," and "The court should quickly cancel the arrest of the president."
He also said, "The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials claims that it has never requested a warrant to the Central District Court, but this is a clear lie that deceived the public, and we need to confirm the duplicate requests in the future," and "The search and seizure warrant involved several people, and when it was rejected by the Central District Court, it went to the Western District Court, so the warrant that was continuously requested to the Central District Court went to the Western District Court, and the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials explained the request by mentioning the location of the presidential office."
After the press conference, President Yoon's legal team announced, "The arrest warrant that was additionally rejected today was from the Seoul Eastern District Court, not the Central District Court," and announced that they plan to soon indict the head of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Oh Dong-woon, and other related officials.
However, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials' position is that it never requested a search and seizure warrant for President Yoon from the Seoul Central District Court, but it did request a communications warrant, and it is drawing attention as it partially denies President Yoon's claims, saying, "There was a case where a communications warrant was requested for President Yoon and members of the State Council at the beginning of the internal rebellion investigation and was rejected."
