Former Defense Minister Seo Wook, who is a key figure in the cover-up of 'the West Sea public official's attack', attended the substantive examination of the arrest warrant held at the Seoul Central District Court today (21st).
Former Minister Seo, who arrived at the Seoul Central District Court at around 9:40 am today, entered the courtroom without answering the reporters asking whether or not to admit the charges.
Former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Seo is accused of instructing the military information integration processing system and Mims to delete confidential information such as interception information that contradicts the circumstance that the late Lee Dae-joon, a public official of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, who was shot and died in the West Sea in September 2020, voluntarily defected to North Korea. .
He is also accused of directing false statements to the Joint Chiefs of Staff report.
The Board of Audit and Inspection released the audit results on the 13th and announced that after the Ministerial Meeting on September 23, 2020, 60 reports related to military intelligence mounted on the Mims were deleted under the instructions of former Minister Suh.
A decision on whether or not to arrest former Minister Seo will be decided as early as this afternoon.
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