Park Jong-jun, the former head of the Presidential Security Service, has been sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant against former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
According to legal sources on November 5, neither Park nor the special prosecutor team led by Jo Eun-seok submitted an appeal to the Seoul High Court by the deadline the previous day. As a result, the three-year sentence handed down in the appellate court has been finalized.
Also sentenced were Lee Kwang-woo, the former head of the security headquarters, to two years in prison, and Kim Shin, the former head of the family security department, who received a one-year sentence with a two-year probation.
In contrast, Kim Seong-hoon, the former deputy chief, filed an appeal on November 3, seeking a review from the Supreme Court. He was sentenced to five years in prison in both the first and second trials.
Park and others were indicted for mobilizing security personnel and barricades to prevent the execution of the arrest warrant at the presidential residence in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, when the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission attempted to carry it out in January of last year.
The appellate court recognized the charges against Park and others for obstructing the execution of the arrest warrant on October 28. However, it reduced Park's initial four-year sentence to three years, considering that he did not actively intend to engage in physical confrontation with the officials responsible for executing the warrant and did not participate in further obstruction after resigning from his position.
On the other hand, the court maintained Kim's five-year sentence, citing his key role in the organized obstruction of the warrant's execution. He was also found guilty of instructing the deletion of information from the encrypted phones of three military commanders under investigation, as directed by former President Yoon.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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