A former deputy director of South Korea’s spy agency has been given a prison sentence for diverting funds from the agency’s clandestine operations budget, in order to aid South Korea’s disgraced former President, Lee Myung-bak, who has himself been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Lee Jong-myeong served as third deputy
director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) under the
conservative administration of Lee Myung-bak. In 2013, Lee was succeeded
by another conservative president, Park Geun-hye, who is currently
serving a 25-year prison sentence for corruption. As intelNews has previously reported,
several senior NIS officials, including three of its former directors,
have been sentenced to prison for diverting agency funds to
psychological operations aimed at preventing the election of liberal
politicians.
Now the probe into the NIS’ illegal
political activity has expanded to include the organization’s mid-level
management, including Lee Jong-myeong. On Monday, the Seoul Central
District Court found Lee guilty
of spending nearly $500,000 from the NIS’ clandestine operations budget
to discredit two liberal former presidents, Roh Moo-hyun and Kim
Dae-jung. The goal of the campaign was to convince the South Korean
electorate that a future liberal president would surrender the reigns of
the country to North Korea.
These revelations have sparked a major overhaul of South Korea’s intelligence system, which some observers have described
as the NIS’ “most dramatic shake-up in decades”. The government
reportedly intends to prevent the NIS from having any domestic role, and
to limit its operations to foreign targets. But some conservative
politicians have accused the current administration of left-of-center
president Moon Jae-in of “defanging” the NIS.
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