Chapter 371 Forced to Retreat

Chapter 371 Forced to Retreat

Chapter 371 Forced to Retreat
Generally speaking, the term of office of the Attorney General is two to three years. This position has its own appointment process, which is generally nominated by the Minister of Justice and then appointed by the Prime Minister based on the President's authorization.

However, if the previous Attorney General has not completed his term and there is no dereliction of duty or other mistakes, even if the president changes, the Attorney General will not be replaced immediately. This is not only a matter of potential rules, but also avoids being condemned by the public for the president interfering in the judiciary.

From this point of view, President Roh's abrupt appointment of a new Attorney General before he stepped down was intended to create some trouble for Lee Min-bo. Of course, this approach can also, to a certain extent, prevent the new president from using the prosecutorial system to cause trouble for the former president immediately after taking office.

However, in An Rusong's previous life, President Roh's approach did not seem to have much effect. The Attorney General Lin Caizhen, who he appointed before leaving office, not only suffered a major blow in the Samsung large-scale bribery case, but also was personally responsible for the investigation of President Roh. When President Roh claimed that he did not know about his wife's bribery, it was also Lin Caizhen who insisted that he must have known and forced him to death.

Of course, those are things of the future. As for the present, what An Rushong said is true. If this video is played on the Internet today, and it is proved that An Rushong does have evidence of drug trafficking by US troops in South Korea, but the Supreme Prosecutor's Office still does not take any action, then Lin Caizhen, as the Prosecutor General, will have a very difficult time.

He had just been questioned about his integrity in the Samsung massive bribery case. If he is now questioned by the public for being fearful of power and dereliction of duty in the US military drug trafficking scandal, then the newly elected President Lee Min-bok will take this opportunity to replace him. By then, General Lin will have no place to cry even if he wants to.

How could Bian Shiyu not hear the threat in An Rushong's words? He couldn't even keep the forced smile on his face, because he realized that by bringing people to NGN company today, he was jumping into a big fire pit. If he was not careful, he might even ruin his career.

why?
It's not for anything else, it's just because the topic of drug trafficking by US troops stationed in South Korea is so popular right now. It can be said to be a hot spot that attracts global attention. No matter who gets involved, they will be noticed by the whole world.

If An Rushong was just an ordinary person, it would be easy to explain, because ordinary people have limited opportunities and channels for things to happen. As long as certain measures are taken to cover it up, even any voice can be covered up. At worst, he can be made to die in an accident. By then, even if public opinion has doubts, as long as the outside world cannot get concrete evidence, the matter will naturally pass over over time.

But unfortunately, An Rushong is not an ordinary person. He has his own channel of expression and can quickly spread the news around the world. This is quite tricky for some people.

Just like today's video, if it were an ordinary person, there would probably be no chance of releasing it, but for An Rushong, as long as he wanted, it would only take a few minutes to make Bian Shiyu "famous."

The most important thing is that even if an ordinary person died accidentally, no one would deliberately investigate, but if someone like An Rusong died suddenly, someone would definitely investigate. In the final analysis, today's incident had no direct connection with Bian Shiyu. He was just pushed out to do the job, so he didn't have to sacrifice his life and property to handle this matter.

The muscles on his face stiffened for a moment, and then Bian Shiyu forced a smile. He glanced in the direction of the camera, then hesitated for a moment, looked at An Rushong, and said, "President An, I think you have misunderstood our purpose. How about this, can we talk in private?"

Just by hearing the other party say this, An Rushong knew that the prosecutor in front of him was backing down. He wanted to find a way out and get out of this damn place safely.

Naturally, he would not refuse the request made by the other party. He was not a madman who insisted on fighting to the death with the other party, nor did he intend to go against the current Supreme Procuratorate. All he wanted was to ensure that his own interests were not violated.

He nodded to the lawyer holding the camera, signaling him to turn off the camera. Then, An Rusong made a gesture towards his office and said, "Let's talk in my office. Xiuyuan, bring me two cups of coffee."

"Thank you, please give me an extra portion of sugar," Bian Shiyu added with a smile.

An Rushong didn't mind at all that he didn't treat her as an outsider. On the contrary, this was actually a sign of goodwill from Prosecutor Bian and a sign of weakness from the other party.

At that moment, the two of them said nothing and just went into An Rusong's office one after the other. In the following half an hour, the two of them had a conversation in An Rusong's office. Because there were no outsiders present, no one knew what they talked about specifically. It was just that when Bian Shiyu said goodbye and left, An Rusong personally sent him downstairs. It seemed that the two of them had a very pleasant conversation. "Why did the investigation of the Supreme Procuratorate end so anticlimactically?" An Rusong's office was filled with a strong smell of cigarettes. Jenny looked at Jiang Xiuyuan who was tidying up the coffee table and walked over to turn on the exhaust. Then, while closing the blinds to isolate the office outside, she asked An Rusong who was sitting in front of the coffee table.

"You can go and have a rest. You don't have to clean up." An Rushong shook Jiang Xiuyuan's hand and said casually, without turning his head, "It's not that simple. They just temporarily retracted their outstretched hands. Believe it or not, if they are sure that I don't have solid evidence, they will pounce on me at the first moment, open their mouths wider than anyone else, and bite harder than anyone else."

Jiang Xiuyuan didn't like Jenny, but she also knew that this woman must be someone extraordinary. So, she reached out and pressed An Rushong's shoulder, then took away the two cups of cold coffee.

"There is one thing that Prosecutor Bian said today that is true, that is, the Supreme Procuratorate is under a lot of pressure, so they jumped out without thinking," An Rushong took a pack of cigarettes from the table and said thoughtfully as he took out a cigarette after watching Jiang Xiuyuan leave.

Jenny walked over slowly and sat down next to An Rusong. She placed a folded single-page document on the coffee table in front of her, pressed it with the index and middle fingers of her right hand, and gently pushed it in front of An Rusong, saying, "Your guess should be right. Here, take a look. This is the news I just heard."

An Rushong had just lit a cigarette. After hearing this, he glanced at the other party, then took the document on the table, unfolded it, and looked at it carefully.

The document should have been obtained by Jenny when he contacted her "backer" when he was talking to Bian Shiyu. The document recorded the information of a person, who was Li Rengui, the director of the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office. According to the records in the document, this person had studied in the United States and established close ties with certain people in the United States.

As for who the "certain people" in the United States are, the information on the document has been smeared out by black ink, so it is impossible to see. Obviously, the other party's information is sensitive, at least the NSA does not want An Rusong to know too much.

"This Li Rengui and Bian Shiyu have a very close relationship. The two can be said to be a master-disciple relationship in a sense," Jenny introduced on the side. "If nothing unexpected happens, Bian Shiyu came to visit this time because of Li Rengui's instructions."

After a pause, she added, "Furthermore, within the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, there has always been a saying of 'the two tigers of the Lee family'. These two tigers are Lee Gui-nam, the head of the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, and Lee In-gyu, the head of the Central Investigation Department. The relationship between the two of them is... very strange."

An Rushong nodded. He was relatively unfamiliar with the name Li Rengui, but he was very familiar with the name Li Guinan.

In the previous Samsung large-scale bribery case, Lee Kyu-nam, who served as the head of the Central Investigation Department, was also one of the persons involved. During that time, he was deeply mired in the scandal and almost couldn't continue. But, interestingly, when Lee Min-bo was forming a policy team, this guy was directly nominated as a candidate for the Minister of Justice. In other words, not only was he not implicated in the scandal, but he skipped the level of the Attorney General and became the Minister of Justice directly. The former Attorney General Lim Chae-jin became his subordinate.

How about this, isn’t it very dramatic? But in a magical country like the Republic of Korea, this kind of magical thing is really not strange at all.

Jenny said that the relationship between Li Guinan and Li Rengui was very strange, which was a bit vague, but An Rusong was very clear. If nothing unexpected happened, the relationship between Li Guinan and Li Rengui, the "two tigers" of the Procuratorate, should be very tense, even though both of them had the surname Li.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, although both of them have the surname Li, they are not relatives, let alone brothers. At the same time, one of them is the director of the Central Investigation Department, and the other is the director of the Central Investigation Department. They are both strong contenders for the third term. It would be a lie to say that the relationship between the two is harmonious.

In connection with the information revealed by Jenny and some of the situations he had learned before, An Rushong felt that although Li Minbo had not yet officially taken action against the Supreme Procuratorate or even the entire procuratorial system, some secret operations were already underway. If nothing unexpected happened, there would definitely be turmoil in the Supreme Procuratorate in the coming period.

(End of this chapter)