Former head of the National Security Agency, Park Jong-jun, sentenced to three years in prison for 'obstructing the arrest of Yoon Seok-yeol'

Special prosecutor and defendant do not appeal... Only former Deputy Director Kim Seong-hoon went to Daejeon.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Young-seop = Former Presidential Security Service Director Park Jong-joon, who was indicted on charges of obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Seok-yeol by the Senior Public Officials Crime Investigation Office, was sentenced to three years in prison.

According to the legal community on the 5th, the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 1 (Chief Judge Yoon Seong-sik), the second trial panel in the case of former Director Park's alleged obstruction of special official duties, did not receive the appeal until the day before the appeal deadline.

Accordingly, as of this day, former Director Park's second trial sentence of three years in prison was confirmed.

Former head of the National Security Headquarters Lee Gwang-woo and former head of the Family Security Headquarters Kim Shin, who were also indicted, were also sentenced to two years in prison and one year in prison with two years of probation, respectively, in the second trial.

However, former Deputy Director of the Ministry of National Security Kim Seong-hoon submitted an appeal and received the Supreme Court's decision.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in the second trial following the first trial.

On the 28th of last month, the second trial court found former Director Park and others guilty of interfering with the entry into the official residence when the Corruption Investigation Office, which was investigating former President Yoon's alleged rebellion, attempted to execute an arrest warrant in January last year.

The first trial also upheld the guilty verdict on the charge of former Director Kim being involved in deleting secret phone information of three military commanders who were under investigation under the direction of former President Yoon (violation of the Presidential Security Act).