Colonel Park Jung-hoon was sentenced to the first trial today on charges of defamation and defamation of the Coporal Chae investigation.

The results of the first trial will be released today (9th) against Park Jung-hoon, the former head of the Marine Corps investigation team, who was indicted on charges of defamation of mutiny and superiority in connection with the death of Chae Sang-byung.

The Central District Military Court in Yongsan, Seoul, will hold a first trial hearing on Colonel Park at 10 a.m. today.

The court held 10 hearings from December 2023 to November last year.Former head of investigation

Park was charged with failing to comply with former Marine Corps Commander Kim Gye-hwan's order not to transfer the investigation records of the death of a corporal in July 2023 to the police and defaming former Defense Minister Lee Jong-seop.

In a final trial, the military prosecution asked Park, the former head of the investigation, to serve three years in prison, the maximum legal sentence for the crime of mutiny under the military criminal law.

In response, Park Jung-hoon, the former head of the investigation, has pleaded not guilty, saying that there were allegations of external pressure in the process of transferring the case to the police.