The special counsel investigating the insurrection case on Jan. 13 asked the court to sentence former Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Kim Bong-sik, who is charged with serving in a key post for an insurrection, to 15 years in prison at a sentencing hearing before the Seoul Central District Court's Criminal Agreement Division 25, presided over by Jee Kui-youn.
According to prosecutors, on the day martial law was declared, the former Seoul commissioner is accused of deploying thousands of officers and buses to the National Assembly to completely block entry by lawmakers and others.
Prosecutors also say Kim facilitated the entry of armed soldiers from the Special Warfare Command and the Capital Defense Command into the National Assembly, thereby obstructing the exercise of powers such as the Assembly's vote on a resolution to demand the lifting of martial law—the only institutional means to check abuse of the president's power to declare martial law—and participating in actions that incapacitated the Assembly.