Two Police Informants in 'Itaewon Report Deletion' Case Released on Bail

The bail request of a police intelligence officer who was arrested and indicted on charges of ordering the deletion of an internal report related to the Itaewon Halloween festival has been granted.

On December 5 last year, Park Seong-min, former head of the Public Safety Information and Foreign Affairs Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, is entering the Seoul Western District Court. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

According to the legal community on the 21st, the Criminal Division 11 of the Seoul Western District Court (Chief Judge Bae Seong-jung) approved the bail request of Park Seong-min, former head of the Public Safety Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Department of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, and Kim Jin-ho, former intelligence officer of the Yongsan Police Station, who are accused of instructing the destruction of public electronic records and evidence tampering.

Conditions for bail approval included submitting a written pledge to appear at trial and not to tamper with evidence, residence restrictions, and payment of a 50 million won deposit. Of the 50 million won deposit, 30 million won can be replaced with a guarantee certificate.

They are accused of ordering the deletion of an intelligence report that anticipated a crowd gathering in Itaewon during Halloween Day and carrying out the order. Park, the former head, is suspected of instructing frontline intelligence officers, including Kim, through messenger on November 2 last year, to delete the intelligence report containing information that a crowd might gather in Itaewon on Halloween Day. Kim is also under investigation for ordering his subordinates to delete the report stored on a work PC.

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