Prosecution Appeals Against Former Court Chief Lee Tae-jong's Acquittal in 1st and 2nd Trials... 'Charge of Leaking Investigation Secrets'

Lee Tae-jong, former Chief Judge of Seoul Western District Court.

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin, Legal Affairs Specialist] Lee Tae-jong, former chief judge of the Seoul Western District Court, who was indicted on charges of leaking investigation secrets to prevent the prosecution from expanding its investigation into internal court corruption in 2016 and was acquitted in both the first and second trials, will now face a ruling from the Supreme Court. Lee is currently a presiding judge at the Suwon High Court.

On the 25th, the prosecution, dissatisfied with the appellate court's decision to acquit Lee on charges of abuse of authority and official secret leakage, as in the first trial, filed an appeal with the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 13 (Presiding Judges Choi Su-hwan, Choi Sung-bo, and Jung Hyun-mi).

Lee was indicted on charges of instructing a planning judge to obtain copies of warrants and other investigation secrets and reporting them to Lim Jong-heon, then deputy chief of the Court Administration Office, when the prosecution was investigating employees of the Western District Court's enforcement officer office from October to November 2016.

He was also accused of giving improper orders to the court secretariat chief and others to promptly obtain, verify, and report copies of warrants, but was acquitted in both the first and second trials.

Among the cases prosecuted by the prosecution related to judicial corruption, Lee is the eighth person to be acquitted.

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