You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 372

“No way. He’s definitely not that kind of kid. He doesn’t even drink, and I’ve only seen him drunk when I forced him to learn how to drink. I guarantee it.”

[Truth]

Fortunately, it’s a truth judgment, but my ability only discerns truth and lies to the extent that the speaker knows.

In other words, even if Park Young-ki believes what he says and goes to meet his son, I might get a lie judgment from the son.

Anyway, since he says his son is not that kind of person, I have no choice but to trust the father’s gut feeling and proceed with the story for now.

Since I’m planning to decide whether to take on the case after meeting the son in person, it’s better to grasp the situation first.

“How did this suddenly happen, Chief Prosecutor? As you said earlier, if your wife was crying since dawn, it seems like he was arrested then… Was there anything before that?”

Park Young-ki sighed deeply at Kang Min-jae’s question and replied.

“Just like Attorney Kang said. Suddenly, the police came to Jin-sung’s studio at dawn and arrested him as a flagrant offender [caught in the act of committing a crime]. Other than that, he wasn’t investigated as a witness or anything.”

If arrested as a flagrant offender, the place of arrest and the body of the offender can be searched without a warrant.

I wonder if they deliberately raided Park Young-ki’s son’s studio when he was there to arrest him as a flagrant offender.

“They initially took him in for drug possession, but they might try to accuse him of drug trafficking as well. Because the amount found was large…”

“I heard it was 50 kilograms.”

“Ha, I know Jin-sung well. He’s not that kind of kid. He’s doing well with furniture design right now, so there’s no reason for him to try to make money with drugs. Besides, he’s so busy with orders that he doesn’t have time to pay attention to such things.”

Park Young-ki rubbed his temples, looking distressed.

“Chief Prosecutor, have you met your son?”

“It’s not easy for a current Deputy Chief Prosecutor to go see his son who was arrested as a flagrant offender. If strange rumors spread, it’ll only hurt the kid more. If it were the Prosecutor’s Office, I could try to go secretly, but it’s the police…”

“It seems he was arrested because the decisive evidence was the CCTV footage of your son unloading cocaine from his car in the parking lot and the actual cocaine in your son’s studio. What do you think about the footage of your son unloading cocaine from his car?”

Although the CCTV footage was broadcast on the news, the man unloading cocaine from the car was wearing a mask and hat, making it impossible to identify him as Park Young-ki’s son.

If the police had tracked the car to the end and filmed him taking off the mask and hat, confirming it was Park Young-ki’s son, it would be an undeniable situation, but I hope that’s not the case.

There was no mention of that in the news, so it probably isn’t.

“I don’t know. That’s why I have so many thoughts. The man unloading cocaine in the CCTV footage looks similar in build to Jin-sung, so I wondered if he really did it… But the Jin-sung I know is really not that kind of kid, so I’m very confused.”

“If you haven’t appointed a lawyer yet, would it be okay for us to meet your son?”

“……I was looking for a lawyer, but would it really be okay? It would be great if Attorney Cha and Attorney Kang could help me.”

“We’re not helping you, we’re repaying a favor. But if it becomes clear that your son really transported cocaine, we won’t be able to do anything either. If that’s okay, we’ll meet him once.”

“If that really becomes clear, I’ll have to take off my robe first [resign from my position].”

Park Young-ki looked at me and Attorney Kang with determined eyes.

“……But based on what I know now, I’m sure it’s a setup. Just looking at the timing, I thought Wooshin wouldn’t leave me alone because of Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok. But I didn’t expect it to be this way.”

“We think so too.”

“So I feel sorry that you’re going through hardships because of us. If you hadn’t helped us, Chief Prosecutor, this wouldn’t have……”

Park Young-ki interrupted Kang Min-jae.

“Don’t say that. And I only helped you when Attorney Cha was falsely accused of murder, and after that, I proceeded with the investigation according to my conscience. If you say that, it just sounds like I, as a senior, was pressured by my juniors to conduct a coercive investigation, doesn’t it? It’s not because of you, so don’t think that way.”

“I’m sorry. That’s not what I meant.”

As Kang Min-jae bowed his head, Park Young-ki waved his hand.

“What’s important now is not that. First, we need to find out what the police have. The arrest as a flagrant offender was possible because drugs were found in the studio, and Jin-sung was there……”

“First, we need to see if an arrest warrant is issued… It probably will be.”

“I guess so. If Wooshin started this with a plan.”

“If an arrest warrant is issued, we should proceed with a warrant review. We can’t let him be transferred to the detention center.”

In fact, even if we proceed with a warrant review, it is not certain whether we can get Park Young-ki’s son, Park Jin-sung, out.

If the court dismisses it, he will have to stay in the detention center or jail and be investigated.

There’s no way Wooshin would let Park Jin-sung be investigated comfortably.

They must have influenced the court.

If that happens, we will have to go through troublesome procedures every time we go to meet Park Jin-sung, which will be difficult in many ways.

“Attorney Cha, do you think we can get him out?”

“It’s best not to have high expectations. But I’ll look for a way.”

Park Young-ki sighed and looked into the distance.

The police have already found cocaine in Park Jin-sung’s studio and confirmed that he was transporting it in Park Jin-sung’s car, so they will immediately send him to the Prosecutor’s Office.

Of course, if they want to investigate, there is room for a longer investigation, but with Wooshin’s influence, that is unlikely to happen…….

What’s funny is that this case is under the jurisdiction of the Central District Prosecutor’s Office, where Park Young-ki is the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor, but drug investigations are conducted under the 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor, so it will be important to know what the relationship between Park Young-ki and the 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor is like.

“What is your relationship with the 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor?”

“The 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor doesn’t like me. He thinks I took his position.”

Park Young-ki’s appointment as the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Central District Prosecutor’s Office was a collaboration between Kang Kwan-woong and Lee Se-hwa.

Lee Se-hwa probably moved the Minister of Justice, and that’s why Park Young-ki, who was the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Western District Prosecutor’s Office, suddenly became the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor, who is practically a Prosecutor General nominee.

The 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor was also promoted to Deputy Chief Prosecutor around the same time as Park Young-ki, and it seems he thinks that he would have become the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor if it weren’t for Park Young-ki.

Hwang Young-chan must have been thinking the same thing.

As Park Young-ki suddenly rose to a key position, his surroundings, which had been quiet, suddenly became noisy.

Perhaps I changed Park Young-ki’s life by forming a relationship with Kang Kwan-woong.

So, even more so, assuming that Park Jin-sung is innocent, I must save him.

“The 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor might think it’s an opportunity. Maybe he even received a bribe from Wooshin for this.”

“We need to consider that as well. In any case, if Wooshin started this with a plan, everything around us will not be beneficial. Has the arrest warrant arrived?”

“Not yet. But I talked to him on the phone. He’s at the Gangnam Police Station.”

“Did you tell him not to make a statement until the lawyer arrives?”

“I did. Because I don’t know if anything he says might be misinterpreted and work against him. I’ll give you the phone number of the detective in charge, so write it down.”

Kang Min-jae wrote down the phone number that Park Young-ki gave him.

Then, Park Young-ki, feeling frustrated, took a cigarette from the table and went out to the veranda.

“I didn’t know Wooshin would go this far. No, they are the kind of guys who would do this. How can they frame an innocent person like this……”

“Isn’t this the first time you’ve seen them frame an innocent person?”

Thinking about the cases I’ve handled so far, Wooshin has always been like this.

They drove innocent people to their deaths to prevent their wrongdoings from being exposed.

This time is no different.

To try to falsely accuse the son of the 3rd Deputy Chief Prosecutor, who is practically a Prosecutor General nominee, of drug possession.

Well, even if they have become toothless tigers, they are the ones who killed Lee Jung-chan.

They won’t stop here.

“They’ll try to make a deal with the Chief Prosecutor.”

In exchange for dropping the charges against his son, they’ll ask him to replace the prosecutors in charge of Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok.

“Do you think the Chief Prosecutor will agree to the deal?”

“I don’t know. But we need to make it so he doesn’t have to agree before that happens.”

Before I knew it, Park Young-ki seemed to have finished his cigarette and opened the veranda door, stubbing out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.

Kang Min-jae forced a smile and took Park Young-ki’s hand.

“You must be feeling very complicated?”

“I’m human, so I can’t help but feel that way.”

“The situation is not good in many ways, but we’ll do our best, Chief Prosecutor.”

“Thank you. Attorney Cha, Attorney Kang.”

“It’s too early to say thank you. I’ll receive it later when your son is free.”

* * *

After applying for an interview and waiting for a while, I was soon able to meet Park Jin-sung.

He looked weak all over, but after confirming my and Kang Min-jae’s faces, he sat across from us with a slightly brighter face.

“Hello. Attorney Cha Joo-han, Attorney Kang Min-jae, right?”

Before I could even hand over my business card along with the greeting, Park Jin-sung recognized us and asked.

“I’ve seen your faces in various media outlets. I’ve also heard a lot about you from my father.”

It seemed that Park Jin-sung knew that we had a pretty good winning rate and was relieved.

“We’re coming from seeing Chief Prosecutor Park Young-ki.”

“Ah…… yes.”

Park Jin-sung became somber in an instant when I mentioned his father’s name.

“He must be very worried about me?”

“Of course. But we have to work hard to get you out. First, I’m going to ask you a few questions, so please answer honestly without hiding anything.”

Park Jin-sung nodded at Kang Min-jae’s words.

I opened my mouth.

“I think you’ve already been tested for drugs, but have you ever taken drugs?”

This is the most important point.

Assuming that Park Jin-sung really intended to distribute drugs, the distributor usually not only transports drugs but also uses them himself.

So, if the drug test conducted by the police comes back negative, it will be quite favorable.

“No, I haven’t.”

[Lie]