Overview

• Lee Myeong-hyeon’s team searched the Defense Ministry’s military prosecution offices in central Seoul over alleged illegal intervention in the case’s transfer to police.
• The team later raided the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials in Gwacheon and the homes of former CIO prosecutors to examine prolonged delays in its inquiry.
• Prosecutors are probing claims that high-ranking officials from the then Yoon Suk Yeol administration influenced decisions that cleared initial suspects.
• Marine investigators had sent findings naming eight suspects to police, after which military prosecutors retrieved the case and reduced the list to two.
• Former Defense Ministry prosecutor-general Brig. Gen. Kim Dong-hyeok has been questioned as a suspect, and Col. Park Jung-hun was previously acquitted after being charged over referring the probe.