Noh Sang-won, former commander of the Defense Intelligence Command, who was sentenced to prison at trial for allegedly receiving personal information on Defense Intelligence Command agents during the process of forming the so-called second investigation team to probe suspected election fraud under the Dec. 3 martial law, appealed. The special counsel for insurrection also filed an appeal the same day, setting up a second trial.
According to legal sources on the 19th, the former commander's side filed a notice of appeal that day with the 21st Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Lee Hyun-bok). The special counsel for insurrection also submitted a notice of appeal.
Noh was indicted in June on charges that from September to December last year, in an attempt to form the second investigation team, an unofficial group to investigate suspected election fraud, he received military information, including personal details of Defense Intelligence Command agents, from former commander Moon Sang-ho and others. He was also charged with receiving 20 million won in cash and about 6 million won in department store gift certificates from former Defense Intelligence Command Central Newspaper Division chief Kim Bong-gyu (colonel) and Army 2nd Armored Brigade commander Gu Sam-hoe (brigadier general) in August to September last year in exchange for promising to help with their promotions.
On the 15th, the court found Noh guilty of both receiving a bribe for influence under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes and violating the Personal Information Protection Act, sentencing him to two years in prison and ordering a forfeiture of 24.9 million won. The special counsel sought three years in prison.