The former director of South Korea’s National Intelligence and National Security Service Suh Hoon has been arrested after being accused of suppressing information about an assassination in which North Korea may have been involved.
Suh is accused of orchestrating the removal of intelligence records related to the murder of Lee Dae Jun, an official at the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries in 2020, reports the ‘Korea Herald’.
According to South Korean authorities, North Korean military personnel shot Lee to death after he was rescued from the sea and then set his body on fire.
The former intelligence director is not only accused of eliminating information, but also of falsifying data to make it appear that the official was trying to defect, an aspect that the South Korean authorities denied a year later.
Suh is one of several officials of the administration of former President Moon Jae In in relation to this case.
In October, Seo Wook, who was Minister of National Defense at the time, was arrested before being released on bail of about 70,000 euros.
Suh is also under investigation for meddling in the investigation into the forced repatriation of two North Korean men in 2019. The National Intelligence Service filed the criminal report against him in July after its internal investigation revealed his possible wrongdoing.
