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Prosecutors who have been investigating the death of a South Korean public official by a North Korean soldier in the West Sea have requested arrest warrants for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Commissioner of the Korea Coast Guard Kim Hong-hee.
It has been four months since we started the investigation and four days after we received a request for an investigation by the Board of Audit and Inspection.
First, let's take a look at what charges the prosecution applied to the two people.
Correspondent Han So-hee.
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After the Coast Guard overturned its position and accused the bereaved family in June, the prosecution, which has continued the search and seizure and subpoena investigation, including the Presidential Archives, began the process of securing new recruits.
They requested arrest warrants for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner Kim Hong-hee on charges of abuse of power and creation of false official documents.
Seo was also charged with corruption of public electronic records.
The two allegations were detailed in the recently released audit results of the Board of Audit and Inspection.
In the early hours of the day after Lee's death, former Minister Suh is accused of instructing him to delete 60 cases of military secrets containing wiretapping information that contradicts the government's judgment that Mr. Lee voluntarily defected to North Korea, or to write false information in the Joint Chiefs of Staff report. .
At the time of the incident, former Coast Guard Commissioner Kim Hong-hee, who led the search for missing persons and announcing the circumstances at the time of the incident, is accused of using unconfirmed evidence or concealing existing evidence in accordance with the policy of the Blue House National Security Office, distorting the results of experiments, and voluntarily announcing the results of an investigation focusing on North Korea. are receiving
In particular, the Board of Audit and Inspection announced that there was a statement from a Coast Guard official saying, "I'll do what I didn't see," even after receiving a report that former Commissioner Kim had Chinese characters written on Lee's life jacket.
Both were among the 20 people requested by the Board of Audit and Inspection for investigation.
After the arrest warrants are issued for the heads of the Ministry of National Defense and the Coast Guard, the next time it is expected that the NIS, which has confirmed the deletion of similar documents, will be the Blue House National Security Office, which is suspected of leading the decision to voluntarily defect to North Korea.
(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)