The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's acquittal of a senior prosecutor indicted for conspiring in 2020 with a then opposition lawmaker to have complaints filed against then ruling camp figures.
The top court handed down the ruling to Son Jun-sung, deputy chief prosecutor of the Daegu High Prosecutors Office, after a court of appeals last year acquitted him of leaking official secrets and violating the personal information protection law in connection with the so-called political meddling case.
Son, who formerly served as an aide to then Prosecutor General Yoon Suk Yeol, was indicted in mid-2022 on charges of secretly asking People Power Party Rep. Kim Woong, just before the general elections in April 2020, to file complaints against three pro-government figures for their alleged involvement in negative news reports about Yoon's wife.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Son to one year in prison in January 2024. But the Seoul High Court found him not guilty in December of the same year, citing a lack of evidence. (Yonhap)
