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Prosecutors investigating the attack of a public official in the West Sea have requested arrest warrants for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Commissioner of the Maritime Police Agency Kim Hong-hee.
According to the government's judgment at the time that a public official who was killed by the North Korean army voluntarily defected to North Korea, he is being accused of ordering the deletion of information or making a distorted statement.
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 an arrest warrant for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner Kim Hong-hee on charges of abuse of power and creation of false public 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.
Former Minister Seo is accused of instructing the deletion of 60 cases of military secrets containing wiretapping information that contradicts the government's judgment that Mr. Lee voluntarily defected to North Korea in the morning of the day after Lee's death, or of instructing him to write false information in the Joint Chiefs of Staff report.
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 line with the Blue House National Security Office policy, distorting the experimental results, and publishing the investigation results voluntarily focusing on defecting to 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 Kim had Chinese characters written on Lee's life jacket.
Both were among the 20 people the Board of Audit and Inspection requested to investigate.
The substantive examination of the arrest warrants for the two will be held on Friday, the 21st, and when the arrest warrants are issued for the heads of the Ministry of National Defense and the Coast Guard, the next step will be the NIS, which has confirmed the deletion of similar documents, and the Blue House National Security Office, which is suspected of leading the decision to voluntarily defect to North Korea. it looks like