You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 393

[Incumbent Chief Prosecutor, Received Bribes from W Group Owner, Committing Kidnapping and Confinement……

Chief Prosecutor Hwang, Continuously Denying Allegations → Police, Unconcerned Due to Clear Evidence

Incumbent Chief Prosecutor, Judicial Manipulation by Shielding W Group All This Time…… Netizens “Gone Too Far”

Incumbent Chief Prosecutor Openly Favouring W Group, Remaining Silent……]

As soon as Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon’s broadcast aired, articles poured out.

There had been rumours among reporters that Chief Prosecutor Hwang Young-chan’s Criminal Division 3 had been lukewarm and protective of all cases related to Wooshin, so it was as if a dam had burst.

Every time I went up against Criminal Division 3, they always made Koh Sang-joon’s children the victims or hid them.

The court results always showed Wooshin or Koh Sang-joon’s children as the perpetrators, and it wouldn’t have been difficult for reporters to notice that Criminal Division 3 was openly shielding Wooshin.

They just didn’t say it.

But now that Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon had directly targeted the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office’s Criminal Division 3 and mentioned Hwang Young-chan’s name, reporters also felt safe and began to open their mouths, hiding behind Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon.

Of course, no one directly used Hwang Young-chan’s name in their articles, but in the article comments, netizens wrote down his name and posted links to Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon’s broadcast.

“Hwang Young-chan’s misdeeds are finally being revealed to the world.”

Kang Min-jae scoffed as he checked the news on his phone while parking the car in Park Young-ki’s apartment parking lot and heading to the elevator.

“Serves him right.”

“This is just the beginning.”

“We need to send him to prison. If we’ve done this much, the prosecution won’t just stand by. They’ve had shit thrown in their faces.”

The prosecution is an organization that values prestige.

I suddenly thought of his appearance when he was talking about becoming the Prosecutor General, not knowing he would end up like this.

Prosecutor General?

Well, maybe he could have become one in the past.

I don’t know the result because I was kidnapped and died the day before the Prosecutor General’s confirmation hearing, but anyway, he rose to the position of Chief Prosecutor, so maybe it was possible.

But it’s different in this life.

I made sure he couldn’t set foot in the prosecution again, and with these charges, he won’t be able to hang around the legal profession.

Hwang Young-chan’s legal career ended as a Chief Prosecutor.

“Welcome.”

The door opened as soon as I rang Park Young-ki’s doorbell, and Park Young-ki greeted us.

“Hello. Madam is here too. How have you been?”

Park Jin-sung’s mother definitely looked healthier than before.

Even if we didn’t brief her separately, Park Young-ki is a current Deputy Chief Prosecutor, so he knows this situation well, and I think he reassured her that Park Jin-sung would be released soon.

As we entered the living room, Heo Min-woo, who had arrived before us, looked at us with a fork holding fruit.

“Ah, Attorney Cha and Attorney Kang are here.”

“You came early.”

Kang Min-jae said, sitting next to him.

I also sat next to Kang Min-jae and looked at Heo Min-woo.

I was curious about how the investigation was going.

“Since you’re both here, I’ll tell you. First of all, the Chief of Staff is exercising his right to remain silent. He’s not saying a word. His lawyer is coming later, so I’ll have to go into the interrogation room then to see what he says. And Hwang Young-chan kept insisting that he was only there because he received an anonymous tip that something would happen there.”

As expected.

There are only a few things Hwang Young-chan, who shouldn’t have been there, can say to explain why he was there.

“So when I confronted Hwang Young-chan and the thug, Hwang Young-chan denied knowing him personally, saying he only knew he was a drug fugitive.”

But there’s a limit to what he can say.

Because I’m explaining that the photo I gave to Heo Min-woo isn’t that.

“He kept acting like that, so I showed him the photo Attorney Cha gave me and asked if he still didn’t know the thug, and he just shut his mouth.”

“I see. Then what happened to the taxi driver and the repair shop owner that Attorney Cha secured the location of? Did you call them as witnesses?”

“Ah, yes. They seem to be playing a decisive role in catching Hwang Young-chan. It seemed like Hwang Young-chan contacted them directly and gave them the job. Those people seemed scared. As the case got bigger, they were afraid of being severely punished. So I coaxed them well, and they confessed right away. They said it was true that Hwang Young-chan ordered them to do it.”

“What about Customs Team Leader Kim Ki-cheol? He’s banned from leaving the country, so he should be somewhere in Korea now.”

“Someone said they saw Kim Ki-cheol, so after tracking him down, we found out that he’s been living in cheap inns. We’re planning to arrest him today.”

Park Young-ki slumped on the sofa and sighed, as if the tension had been released.

“So, what about our Jin-sung?”

Park Jin-sung’s mother, who had been listening to the story quietly, asked cautiously.

Then Heo Min-woo smiled and replied.

“Park Jin-sung will be released this afternoon. It’s been proven that he’s innocent. Madam, get ready. You have to go pick up Park Jin-sung.”

“Oh, my goodness……”

Park Jin-sung’s mother shed tears.

Wiping her tears with her sleeve, Park Young-ki said to her,

“Why are you crying on a good day?”

But the tears didn’t stop easily, as she had suffered a lot of heartache for a long time.

“Chief Prosecutor, it’s time to wield the iron hammer.”

Park Jin-sung was also released, and the perpetrators who proved Park Jin-sung’s innocence also opened their mouths.

If Kim Ki-cheol doesn’t want to increase his crimes now that Hwang Young-chan has been arrested, he will say that he was only ordered by Hwang Young-chan and blame everything on Hwang Young-chan.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that Kim Ki-cheol or other related people can avoid punishment, so it’s quite desirable for us that they shift their testimony towards Hwang Young-chan so that he can be 확실히 찍어 낼 수 있도록 [definitely take him down].

If this happens, the prosecution can proceed with an internal investigation into Hwang Young-chan.

“The High Prosecutors’ Office’s Inspection Department will move. I talked to them this morning.”

“We have to hand over evidence that Hwang Young-chan has been working for Wooshin all this time and completely dismiss him.”

“Okay. If we search and seize, something will come out. If we tie him up with Wooshin and punish them together, the repercussions will be huge.”

“That’s what I’ve been hoping for.”

* * *

“Hwang Young-chan gave me the idea first.”

The Chief of Staff, who had been as tight-lipped as a clam, opened his mouth two days later.

“What do you mean?”

It was after several meetings with Taekwang’s lawyer, so it seems it took some time to discuss what to do with the Chief of Staff from above.

“Knowing that the chairman I serve was worried about the cases of his two sons, CEO Ko Yoon-ho and CEO Ko Yoon-seok, I consulted with Chief Prosecutor Hwang Young-chan, who I knew inside the prosecution.”

Now that it’s been decided what to do, it was obvious what would come out of the Chief of Staff’s mouth.

He will try to put everything on Hwang Young-chan.

“And then?”

“Chief Prosecutor Hwang said that Deputy Chief Prosecutor Park Young-ki was putting pressure on the investigation, and that if we got rid of Deputy Chief Prosecutor Park Young-ki, we could get both of his sons suspended sentences. So when I asked him what to do, he planned this incident and told me.”

Heo Min-woo looked at the Chief of Staff while typing on the keyboard.

His calm expression, without any emotion, gave the impression of someone who had made up his mind.

* * *

A few days later, as Park Young-ki said, Hwang Young-chan was handed over to the High Prosecutors’ Office’s Inspection Department.

The police investigate criminal cases, and the High Prosecutors’ Office’s Inspection Department seems to be checking whether Hwang Young-chan has committed any irregularities.

Once he was handed over to the High Prosecutors’ Office’s Inspection Department, there was nothing I could do, but according to rumours, a very strong investigation into Hwang Young-chan is underway.

I heard the news that they started searching and seizing this morning, but I don’t know what happened.

I can’t call Park Young-ki every day and ask how the investigation into Hwang Young-chan is going, so I have no choice but to wait for the results of the investigation.

“……”

I parked the car in the parking lot and habitually checked my phone as I went home.

I was going to check if there were any articles about Hwang Young-chan, but a message had arrived.

[I want to see you for a moment. It’s the park in front of your house.]

It was Hwang Young-chan.

I knew he was being investigated without detention, but I didn’t think he would try to meet me.

By now, he knows that I didn’t betray him, and that I pretended to be on his side from the beginning to deceive him, so I don’t know why he would want to meet me.

Maybe he just wants to see the face of the person he hates.

Whatever it is, I really want to see Hwang Young-chan’s pathetic 모습 [appearance].

Just as I pathetically dropped out of the special investigation team in my previous life, shouldn’t it be fair that he also falls out pathetically?

I headed to the park.

“Chief Prosecutor.”

Hwang Young-chan was sitting on a bench in a secluded part of the park, smoking a cigarette.

The number of cigarette butts on the ground beneath his feet was quite large, so it seemed like he had been waiting for a long time.

“You came.”

Whether it was due to the long investigation, he was quite haggard.

He was always dressed in a neat suit, but he wasn’t wearing a tie and had the top button of his shirt undone.

“I didn’t come to say many words. I just strangely wanted to see you.”

“Yes, it’s strange.”

He wanted to see me, that’s a bit creepy.

I thought he would have been constantly thinking of me and getting angry while being investigated…… Hmm, this feels a bit satisfying.

“You probably think I’ll be kicked out of the prosecution like this.”

“Do you think you can stay in the prosecution any longer?”

“My house, car, and office were all searched and seized. It must have been to check if I had any illegal money from Wooshin.”

“You received a lot of illegal money, didn’t you?”

Hwang Young-chan claimed that he went to the abandoned factory after receiving a tip, but the Chief of Staff claimed that Hwang Young-chan planned the entire Park Jin-sung case.

Not only that.

The people involved in the case all pointed to Hwang Young-chan.

Since they searched and seized, they would have caught the movement of illegal money inside.

“No, I didn’t receive it.”

[Lie]

Hwang Young-chan shook his head shamelessly with the word ‘Lie’ above his head.

Seeing that made me angry.

I suddenly thought of the days when I worked under him.

In my previous life, I was only able to see Hwang Young-chan’s true colours right before I died.

Before that, I thought that he and I were just different in personality, but that we were looking at the same place.

That naivety, thinking that Hwang Young-chan was the only one who wasn’t like that, eventually led me to my death.

He was wearing a mask every moment.

“Can’t you be truthful for even a moment?”

“……I was always truthful.”

[Lie]

“How can you say that you were truthful while living as Wooshin’s dog?”

“I never lived as Wooshin’s dog.”

[Lie]

“No. You were Wooshin’s dog every moment.”

“If I was a dog, it wasn’t Wooshin’s, but a dog of justice.”

[Lie]

There was a flurry of hypocritical lies.

Seeing his smooth face, unable to be honest even at this point, made me sick.

“Nothing will come out of the search and seizure. Then it will end with a disciplinary action. Do you think it’s easy to dismiss a prosecutor?”

“Mok Jin-dong’s private vault. Are the money and ledgers you received from Wooshin there?”

“……”

It’s the private vault that Hwang Young-chan told me was the perfect place to store important things in my previous life.

When I opened my mouth, Hwang Young-chan’s face turned pale in an instant.

“I reported it to the High Prosecutors’ Office’s Inspection Department this morning. The search and seizure might be over by now.”

“How did you know about that place……”

“Is that important? What’s important is that Chief Prosecutor, you’re finished. Then I’ll be on my way.”

I omitted the greeting and turned around, walking towards the outside of the park.

“Cha Joo-haaaaaan!”

With a scream-filled voice as BGM [background music].