The police have booked a civic group official on charges of leaking a preserved document containing activities related to former Police Commissioner General Kim Sun-ho, the first head of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Police Bureau, who is suspected of being a secret informant.
The Public Crime Investigation Unit of the Metropolitan Investigation Division at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 26th that it has booked Lee Jae-beom, secretary of the Recording and Guidance Operation Suspicious Death Fact-Finding Committee, on charges of violating the Personal Information Protection Act.
Lee appeared at the Metropolitan Investigation Division office in Mapo-gu, Seoul, in the afternoon for questioning. Regarding Lee's charges, the police conducted a search and seizure of the office of the Solidarity of Memorial Organizations for National Democratic Martyrs and Victims (Chumo Yeondae) in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and Lee's residence last June.
Earlier, a media outlet obtained and reported on a document from the Defense Security Command that contained information that former Police Commissioner General Kim had reported on the activities of campus circles while he was a student at Sungkyunkwan University in 1983, shortly after being appointed as the first head of the Police Bureau in August 2022. In response, former Commissioner General Kim filed a complaint with the police last August, requesting an investigation into the unidentified person who leaked the Defense Security Command's documents.
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