The decision on whether to arrest former Defense Minister Seo Wook and Kim Hong-hee, former chief of the National Maritime Police Agency, who are the key figures in the suspicion of ‘manipulating a public official who was murdered in the West Sea’ will be decided today.
Judge Kim Sang-woo of the Seoul Central District Court in charge of warrants will hold a substantive examination of the arrest warrants for former Ministers Seo and Kim at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, respectively, to examine the need for their arrest.
In September 2020, the former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries was accused of instructing the government to voluntarily defect to North Korea by the late Lee Dae-joon, a public official of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, in September 2020, and to delete confidential information such as wiretapping information from the military intelligence network and to write false information in the report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. are receiving.
The Board of Audit and Inspection announced on the 13th that the Ministry of National Defense had deleted 60 military intelligence reports mounted on Mims under the instructions of former Minister Suh.
Former Commissioner Kim is accused of distorting the results of a drift prediction experiment and announcing the investigation results using unconfirmed evidence in order to convince Lee that he has fled North Korea.
Prosecutors have additionally charged with defamation of lions when Kim Chung-jung announced the results of the interim investigation and informed the amount of Lee’s gambling debts.
An official from the prosecution explained, “Considering various circumstances such as the attitudes and actions of former Minister Seo and Kim during the investigation, it was determined that it was inevitable to secure new recruits quickly.”
In this regard, the former minister has denied the allegations, saying, “Sensitive information is being spread through the military intelligence network, so distribution was restricted, but the original source of the intelligence was not deleted.”