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Seoul police officers sentenced for deleting Halloween crush evidence (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

The Seoul western district court sentenced Park Sung-min, a former senior intelligence officer at the Seoul metropolitan police agency, to one and a half years in prison, and Kim Jin-ho, a former intelligence officer at the Yongsan police station, to a year in prison, suspended for three years.

Suspended sentences for both, they won't see prison so long as they don't commit any other crimes in the next 3 years. However, both are now former officers.

It's hard to find other sources for either of them because one turns up an actor by the same name and another turns up a singer by the same name.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A South Korean court has sentenced two former senior police officers for destroying evidence linked to Seoul’s deadly 2022 Halloween crush.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, had been out on 29 October 2022 to enjoy the first post-pandemic holiday celebrations in the popular Itaewon nightlife district.

The night turned deadly when crowds poured into a narrow, sloping alleyway between bars and clubs, leading to nearly 160 people being crushed to death.

It said “harsh punishment” was inevitable as they had “made it difficult to determine the substantial truth by minimising and concealing the responsibility of the police”.

South Korea’s rapid transformation from a war-torn country to Asia’s fourth largest economy and a global cultural powerhouse is a source of national pride.

But a series of preventable disasters – such as the 2022 crush and the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking that killed 304 people – have shaken public confidence in authorities.

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