Former Senior Prosecutor Kim Seon-gyu, who was prosecuted for leaking investigation records he wrote while working as a prosecutor, has been sentenced to a fine.
The Supreme Court's 3rd Division (Presiding Judge No Jeong-hee) on the 30th upheld the original ruling that sentenced former Senior Prosecutor Kim to a fine of 20 million won for violating the Personal Information Protection Act.
Kim was indicted in April 2020 on charges of handing over investigation records, including a detention warrant opinion written during his investigation of Pastor A on fraud charges while working at the Jeonju District Prosecutors' Office in 2014, to lawyer B after his retirement the following year.
The first trial acquitted him, stating that since the victim's statement on how the opinion letter was obtained kept changing during the investigation and trial, "it cannot be ruled out that the opinion letter copy was obtained through other means."
However, the second trial recognized his guilt, stating, "The opinion letter attached by the victim is acknowledged as an accurate transcription of the final version of the opinion letter written by Acting Prosecutor Kim."
The Supreme Court also ruled, "There is no error in the lower court's judgment that violates the rules of logic and experience, exceeds the limits of free evaluation of evidence, or misinterprets the law regarding the establishment of the violation of the Personal Information Protection Act and the evidentiary value of the document copy."
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