The decision on whether to arrest former Defense Minister Seo Wook and Kim Hong-hee, the former head of the National Maritime Police Agency, who are the key figures in the suspected ‘handling of a public official murdered in the West Sea’ will be decided today .
Judge Kim Sang-woo of the Seoul Central District Court in charge of warrants will conduct 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 to arrest her. .
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 in the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, in September 2020, and to remove confidential information such as tapping information wires from the military intelligence network and writing false information in the report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Audit and Inspection Board announced on the 13th that the Ministry of National Defense had deleted 60 military intelligence reports placed on Mims under former Minister Suh’s instructions.
Former Commissioner Kim is accused of distorting the results of a drift prediction experiment and publishing the results of the investigation using unconfirmed evidence in order to convince Lee that he had fled North Korea.
Prosecutors have also accused lions of defamation when Kim Chung-jung announced the results of the interim investigation and reported the extent 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 decided that it was inevitable to secure new recruits quickly.”
In this regard, the former minister has denied the allegations, saying, “Sensitive information is disseminated through the military intelligence network, so the distribution was restricted, but the original source of the information was not delete it.”
