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Former Presidential Security Service Chief Park Jong-Jun Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison in Second Trial for 'Deleting Yoon's Secure Phone Data'

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An appellate court on Wednesday overturned the acquittal of Park Jong-joon, former chief of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), who was indicted for deleting secure phone data involving former President Yoon Suk Yeol and others following Yoon's martial law declaration in 2024. The Seoul High Court ruled Park to one year in prison for destroying evidence by deleting data from secure phones, reversing a lower court's ruling that found him not…

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An appellate court on Wednesday overturned the acquittal of Park Jong-joon, former chief of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), who was indicted for deleting secure phone data involving former President Yoon Suk Yeol and others following Yoon's martial law declaration in 2024. The Seoul High Court ruled Park to one year in prison for destroying evidence by deleting data from secure phones, reversing a lower court's ruling that found him not…

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Park Jong-jun, former head of the Presidential Security Service, who was indicted on charges of destroying evidence for deleting confidential phone information of key figures during the December 3 martial law, was sentenced to one year in prison in the second trial. The Seoul High Court acknowledged the defendant's intent to destroy evidence and ruled that the act obstructed the discovery of the substantive truth in the investigation related to …

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The court overturned the first-instance acquittal of Park Jong-jun, former head of the Presidential Security Service, who was charged with destroying evidence by deleting confidential phone information of former President Yoon Suk-yeol and others following the December 3 martial law declaration, and sentenced him to one year in prison. On the 14th, the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 12-2 (Presiding Judge Cho Jin-gu) [sentenced] former head P…

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Bit-na = Former Presidential Security Service member Park Jong-jun, indicted on charges of deleting confidential phone information of former President Yoon Suk-yeol and others following the December 3 martial law declaration...

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Former Chief Security Officer Park Jong-joon, who was charged with deleting the secret phone account of former President Yoon Seok-yeol after the 12·3 emergency martial law, was sentenced to prison in the first instance. Seoul High Court Criminal Division 12-2 (General Manager Cho Jin-gu, Kim Min-ah, Lee Seung-chul) destroyed the original judgment that acquitted Chief Park, who was charged with destruction of evidence on the 14th, and sentenced …

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
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