Police Extend Travel Ban for Park Jong-jun, Kim Sung-hoon, and Lee Kwang-woo... Focus on Obstructing Arrest Investigation

[Financial News] The police have extended the travel ban on the heads of the security office who obstructed the execution of the arrest warrant for former President Yoon Seok-yeol, following the attendees of the cabinet meeting held just before the 12·3 martial law.
The 12·3 Martial Law Special Investigation Team of the National Police Agency announced through a press release on the 27th that this measure was taken in mid-month against Park Jong-jun, former Chief of Presidential Security, Kim Sung-hoon, Deputy Chief of Presidential Security, and Lee Kwang-woo, former Director of the Presidential Security Office.
They are accused of obstructing the execution of the first arrest warrant for former President Yoon. Deputy Chief Kim is also accused of instructing the deletion of communication records to the server manager of the presidential secret phone (security phone) just before the execution of the second arrest warrant, which was conducted after Chief Park's resignation.
The special team is additionally investigating the circumstances of remote deletion of secret phone information related to martial law. During the analysis of the secret phone server voluntarily submitted by the security office, traces were found that the secret phone information of former President Yoon Seok-yeol, former National Intelligence Service Deputy Director Hong Jang-won, and former Seoul Police Chief Kim Bong-sik was remotely deleted. The police suspect that a security office official with access to the server may have deleted the information.
The police are expected to accelerate the investigation into the obstruction of special official duties as additional evidence related to the secret phones of former President Yoon and the heads of the security office has been secured. The secret phone server is identified as crucial evidence not only for the obstruction of special official duties but also for the charge of rebellion, and efforts to secure additional evidence are expected to be focused.
However, in the rebellion charge trial of former President Yoon, the court's issuance of a search and seizure warrant must be requested ex officio for the evidence to be recognized. The police state that they will cooperate as much as possible if the court requests it.

theknight@fnnews.com Jung Kyung-soo Reporter