Kang Eui-gu, former chief of the Presidential Secretariat, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District on May 28 for his first-instance verdict on charges including fabricating a post-dated martial law proclamation following the Dec. 3, 2024, declaration of emergency martial law. [NEWS1]
A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential secretary to 18 months in prison for drafting a false document in connection with former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed 2024 martial law bid.
Seoul Central District Court handed down the punishment for Kang Eui-gu, finding him guilty on charges of creating a false official document by drafting a cover of Yoon's martial law proclamation on Dec. 6, 2024, three days after his declaration.
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The court accepted special counsel Cho Eun-suk's argument that Kang created the document and collected signatures of Yoon, then Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and then Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun to give the martial law declaration an appearance of procedural legitimacy.
