My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 601

## Reason for Bonding

After work, Park Do-joon headed to Lee Yeon’s office at Moonlight Law Firm. He couldn’t exactly delve into someone else’s case at the police station. Lee Yeon and Jung Gwang-ho were already waiting for him there.

“Did you find anything out?”

“Something, but not a lot. They weren’t really trying to hide it, to be honest.”

The fact that the children of Jo Han-seop, Chief Judge of the Daegu District Court, and Park Tae-woon, Chief Prosecutor of the Daegu District Prosecutors’ Office, were getting married was surprisingly well-known in legal circles.

“Could it be that they’re pushing through with the lawsuit because they can’t back out now…?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at Lee Yeon’s words.

“That’s unlikely.”

“Why? There’s a chance they’ll get a lot of heat for claiming it was rape, right?”

“Will they, really? Regardless of the court’s ruling, the truth often gets out to those around them. You know that, right? And haven’t you already investigated Jo Ah-min? What kind of woman did you find her to be?”

“Well…”

The investigation into Jo Ah-min was already complete. There was no way they wouldn’t know about her.

“Should I say she’s a typical woman with a reputation for being promiscuous? Not really the type to value her chastity.”

“Right?”

One-night stands weren’t just a one-off thing for her, and in reality, everyone who needed to know, knew.

“If they’re a family that would marry into her family, they should logically have access to that kind of information. Was it difficult to access that information?”

“No. It took a bit longer because it wasn’t here but in Daegu, but surprisingly, everyone who needed to know in Daegu knew. Ah, I see what you mean.”

The two families were so intertwined with vested interests that they were pushing ahead with the marriage even knowing those rumors.

“Break off the engagement? Honestly, if they were going to break it off because of those rumors, they would have done it dozens of times already.”

“That’s true.”

The fact that they weren’t breaking off the engagement despite all that meant there was something they really wanted.

“But I don’t know what that is. My father said he doesn’t know either. There aren’t really any cases in that area that could be considered vested interests.”

Jung Gwang-ho shook his head, saying he couldn’t get that information.

“As I said before, they must be hiding something. If they’re going to go through with the marriage knowing those rumors, it definitely won’t be a small vested interest.”

“But recently, there haven’t been any cases where Jo Han-seop made a ruling on a case that Park Tae-woon was managing, right?”

Moonlight Law Firm is one of the leading law firms in Korea, and it’s very rare for them not to be able to obtain information. Nevertheless, they couldn’t get any proper information this time.

“It probably isn’t related to a case. If it were a case with that much vested interest attached, they wouldn’t be able to control it easily. Especially if it’s a criminal case, not a civil one.”

“I guess that’s true.”

There’s no reason for the chief prosecutor of the district to handle his own case locally. In the first place, the chief prosecutor of the district doesn’t handle his own case but manages the whole thing.

“Then Park Nam-sang?”

“I don’t think so either. Park Nam-sang is his son, but he hasn’t established himself as a prosecutor yet.”

Of course, he’s being promoted quickly thanks to his father, but apart from that, he’s never received a case powerful enough to risk his own life for marriage.

“However, it’s certain that it’s beneficial.”

“Certain?”

“Think about it. Would you want to marry someone you don’t like?”

Moreover, knowing that the woman doesn’t have a very good reputation around her, could you really marry her? There’s no way.

“That means he’s bringing immense vested interests to himself or his family, enough to risk his life for. And that’s definitely not just a bribe.”

You can’t say he’s getting married just to receive a few bribes; it has to be more than that.

“I still don’t understand.”

“In that case, thinking about the potential fallout is also a method.”

“Fallout?”

“Yeah. A case that would cripple both sides beyond recovery if it were revealed. You just have to find a case that they’re covering up through marriage.”

It seems absurdly large and hopeless, but it’s not a wrong method either, because there are hardly any cases that big.

“And there’s no reason to carry it out directly. Their family has power equivalent to the president in that area, right? Then they can fully share that vested interest. And after receiving that power, they would have rigged the trial.”

“So, a large-scale case that would damage both sides if caught…”

Lee Yeon mulled over the major cases she had received from her father one by one. But there were no matching cases.

“Still nothing.”

Lee Yeon tilted her head as if she didn’t understand at all. Even considering those aspects, there were no cases that made sense.

However, Park Do-joon pointed out an unexpected blind spot to Lee Yeon.

“It must be a case that hasn’t been indicted.”

“What?”

“It’s probably a case that has been transferred to a request for review of prosecution [a process where a victim can ask the court to hold a trial if the prosecution declines to indict].”

“Request for review of prosecution?”

“Yeah, I don’t know which case it is, but it’s a case with immense vested interests at stake. But would a prosecutor try to share that with a judge? There’s no way.”

At first, they would have tried to cut it off at the prosecution level.

A request for review of prosecution is when the victim directly asks the court to hold a trial when the prosecution does not indict.

And if a request for review of prosecution is filed, the judge must, of course, make a ruling.

“It’s probably a huge case. But it hasn’t been indicted.”

“Why? And if a request for review of prosecution is filed and the court has the power to decide, doesn’t the prosecutor have no meaning?”

“If it’s a simple case, you can just give some money to the judge when you file a request for review of prosecution.”

Even if they give it, there’s no possibility that the judge in charge is Jo Han-seop. So, if it’s a small case, they can just give some to the judge below him.

“And a request for review of prosecution is also an expression of feeling wronged, but also confidence that you can win.”

“Confidence?”

“Yeah, ambiguous people don’t file a request for review of prosecution.”

If they’re confident they can win, they’ll naturally try to solve the problem through a request for review of prosecution.

“The problem is, under Korean law, you can’t exclude the prosecutor even if you file a request for review of prosecution.”

If the evidence is sufficient when filing a request for review of prosecution, can you win? Unfortunately, no. Because criminal cases are unconditionally the domain of the prosecutor.

Is the prosecutor excluded when filing a request for review of prosecution? No. Of course, the prosecutor assumes that he has indicted and he does all the indictment process.

“Ah!”

Lee Yeon, who was listening to Park Do-joon’s analysis, realized in an instant why this process came about.

“Insufficient evidence!”

“Correct.”

Even if a request for review of prosecution is filed, the prosecution has the authority over all documents related to the indictment. So, if they submit insufficient data to the court that they didn’t investigate properly, they can naturally elicit a not guilty verdict or insufficient evidence even if they file a request for review of prosecution.

“Then it must be a serious case, so is it a murder case?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at that.

“It’s probably not murder or assault. Those cases are rather personal. There’s no reason to cover it up by having a prosecutor and a judge get married.”

There’s no reason to file a request for review of prosecution for murder or assault. No matter how much power and money you have, it’s not easy to cover up a murder, and even if you do cover it up, a little money is enough, and you don’t need the blood ties of prosecutors and judges.

“Rather, considering the vested interests, it would be money.”

“Money?”

“Yeah. Considering the possibility of betrayal. It must be a case where everyone can know if one person opens their mouth, so they shouldn’t open their mouths, so the condition of marriage is established.”

At Park Do-joon’s words, Lee Yeon’s eyes widened as if she had realized something.

“Huh? Wait a minute.”

Lee Yeon kept rummaging through the data as if she had thought of something. And she took out a case file and put it up.

“Isn’t it this?”

“What is it?”

“The Daegu Unicorn Group fraud case.”

“Unicorn Group?”

“Yeah.”

Unicorn Group is a group in name only, just a typical group of fraudsters.

“Why that case?”

“The case was completely dismissed after the request for review of prosecution. To be exact, no right to prosecute.”

“No right to prosecute?”

“Yeah, it’s a fraud case, but the amount is enormous.”

“How much is it?”

“894 billion won [approximately $670 million USD].”

“What? How can such a big case have no right to prosecute?”

“That’s how it happened.”

Unicorn Group is a so-called internet company that has been promoting that it makes profits through virtual currency and huge futures trading, and it has actually proven its profits.

Of course, many people were attached to it, and it was enough to become a representative startup with investment of hundreds of billions of won.

“But the virtual currency price plummeted and it was a mess.”

People who tried to sell before it fell further and recover their principal had no choice but to be embarrassed by the suddenly disappeared Unicorn Group site.

“When I found out, everything was a scam.”

It is true that they invested in virtual currency in the early days and made some profits. However, it was almost impossible to make profits at the right timing in the virtual currency market, which continues to rise and fall.

When they missed that timing several times, the company began to incur huge losses. Then the company’s representative changed his mind. Let’s make a big hit and run.

“They received investments, but they didn’t invest it?”

“That’s right. It’s a typical virtual currency scam. In the first place, virtual currency has no publicly recognized value.”

If they receive 10 million won in investment, they don’t buy 10 million won worth of virtual currency, but they swallow it and return 1 million won in the name of profit distribution. Then they have 9 million won left.

“People think that they are making profits and invest even more.”

“It’s a typical fraud method.”

It is one of the oldest Ponzi scheme methods, but people are surprisingly easily deceived by it. Especially if the company is a company that actually worked in that field in the past.

“That’s a damage amount of 894 billion won.”

“It’s practically 900 billion won. Considering the interest.”

“That’s right.”

“But even if the company operated in the past, there’s no way that no charges will be filed if that much damage occurs?”

Logically, there’s no way you can just cover up that kind of case.

“The agreement was acknowledged. But the perpetrator died.”

“What?”

“That’s the problem. The perpetrator died.”

Clearly, the money from the scam must have been hidden somewhere. Of course, the victims must be able to recover their money by finding that account. Of course, even if they don’t recover everything, the damage will be greatly reduced even if they recover a significant portion.

Someone must have put their entire fortune into that Ponzi scheme.

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