2023-12-09 12:09:37
▲Into the water to find missing Marines Photo: Yonhap News The battalion commander of the unit belonging to the late Corporal Chae, who died in the line of duty while searching for missing Marines, filed a complaint to the Airborne Corruption Investigation Office once morest former Marine Corps 1st Division Commander Im Seong-geun on charges of defamation.
On the 9th, lawyer Kim Kyung-ho, the legal representative of the Marine Corps 7th Artillery Battalion Commander, announced that he had submitted a complaint to the Corruption Investigation Office once morest former division commander Lim on the charge of ‘defamation of character by stating false information.’
According to the complaint submitted to the Public Corruption Investigation Office, former division commander Lim commented to the head of the Marine Corps’ Public Information and Discipline Office on July 19th, when the Marine Corps’ search for a missing person was covered, saying, “You have done an excellent public relations activity.”
In addition, among the messages shared between the 7th Artillery Battalion Commander and the battalion commander of another unit that was searching for the missing person, there was also a message expressing concern that “I am afraid of searching the waterfront area” and “the water is still deep.”
In relation to this, Attorney Kim argued that the messenger conversation revealed that the order to enter below the knees was an order from his superior, former division commander Lim.
It is known that former Division Commander Lim Seong-geun made a statement to the military court prior to the trial of Colonel Park Jeong-hoon’s mutiny and other charges, saying, “I never gave an order to go into the water.”
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