Court to hold 1st impeachment trial of chief auditor Feb. 12

Court To Hold 1st Impeachment Trial Of Chief Auditor Feb

Choe Jae-hae, chief of the Board of Audit and Inspection, leaves his office in central Seoul, in this file photo taken Dec. 5, 2024, after the National Assembly passed an impeachment motion against him. Yonhap

Choe Jae-hae, chief of the Board of Audit and Inspection, leaves his workplace in central Seoul, on this file picture taken Dec. 5, 2024, after the Nationwide Meeting handed an impeachment movement towards him. Yonhap

The Constitutional Courtroom will maintain the primary listening to of an impeachment trial for the chief state auditor on Feb. 12, in line with the court docket Wednesday.

On Dec. 5, the opposition-controlled Nationwide Meeting handed an impeachment movement towards the Board of Audit and Inspection Chair Choe Jae-hae, suspending his duties and leaving the choice over his destiny to the court docket.

Choe is accused by the opposition of conducting a poor assessment of alleged irregularities surrounding the 2022 relocation of the presidential workplace, which befell consistent with a marketing campaign pledge of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The court docket has held three pretrial hearings to determine the listing of witnesses and lay out key points to deliberate on throughout the upcoming hearings.

Choe is one in every of a number of authorities officers, together with prosecutors, who’ve been impeached by the opposition-controlled parliament since Yoon took workplace in Might 2022. It marked the primary impeachment of a chief state auditor. (Yonhap)

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