The prosecution decided not to indict Cho Won, the son of former Rebuilding Korea Party leader Cho Kuk, who is accused of irregularities in graduate school entrance exams.
According to the legal community on the 8th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office's 5th Criminal Division (Director General Jung Il-gwon) recently suspended prosecution against Cho. Suspended prosecution is one form of non-indictment. While the criminal charges are acknowledged, it is a disposition in which the prosecutor delays the filing of charges considering various reasons such as the circumstances and outcomes of the crime.
Cho is accused of disrupting the admissions process by submitting a falsified internship confirmation letter from Seoul National University and a falsified law firm internship certificate issued by former Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Choi Kang-wook when applying for the first semester entrance exam in 2018.
The prosecution is said to have considered that Cho expressed his intention to return his master's degree from Yonsei University, which subsequently canceled his admission.
Meanwhile, former leader Cho Kuk has been indicted for this case and charges related to the entrance exam irregularities of his daughter Cho Min and the alleged cover-up of a Blue House inspection, and he is currently serving a two-year prison sentence confirmed last December.