SEOUL: A special counsel team in South Korea on Wednesday indicted the head and deputy chief of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) without detention on charges of dereliction of duty in connection with its investigation into the 2023 death of a young Marine.
It marked the first time the agency's leadership has been indicted since its establishment in 2021.
CIO Chief Prosecutor Oh Dong-woon and Lee Jae-seung, the agency's deputy chief, are accused of failing to notify the Supreme Prosecutors' Office for 11 months when a CIO prosecutor became subject to a criminal complaint in August last year, as required by law.