All nine Hyundai Heavy Industries employees sentenced to prison for leaking military secrets... Focus on future unfair sanctions = South Korean report

An employee of Hyundai Heavy Industries, who was charged with stealing military secrets and sharing them on the company's internal network, was sentenced to prison in the first trial, but was later found guilty in an appeals court, even though he had been previously found not guilty.
established. As a result, all nine members of Hyundai Heavy Industries' special ship division have been charged with violating the Military Secrets Protection Act.
On the 30th, the Criminal Division 1 of the Ulsan Trial Chamber of the Busan High Court held a hearing on the 30th regarding military secrets.
At the appeals court, defendant A, who was charged with violating the Protection Act, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison, suspended for 3 years. Nine people belonging to Hyundai Heavy Industries' special ship division, including defendant A, are suspected of violating the Military Secrets Act.
They were all sentenced to suspended prison sentences at the first trial held in November 2022. Eight of them were sentenced without appeal, but in the case of defendant A, the court only considered the suspicion of confidential collection.
He was acquitted of the allegations of leaking the information, and the prosecution was appealing against this. At this appeal court, the prosecution changed the letter of appeal against defendant A. Scan data of stolen military secret materials and
The prosecution argued that because the uploading occurred within the office, even if defendant A had instructed other employees to do so, the suspicion that defendant A had leaked the information could be justified, and the court accepted this claim. This was done without defendant A's instructions.
It is our judgment that it is difficult to imagine that such an act took place. In 2014, Hyundai Heavy Industries employees received a conceptual blueprint (
3rd grade military secrets), etc., were secretly photographed and stored. Subsequently, Hyundai Heavy Industries received an order for KDDX's conceptual design project. However, this fact was revealed in April 2018 by the Armed Forces Counterintelligence Command (formerly Military Security Command).
The incident was discovered during a surprise security audit by the Security Support Command. Nine out of 12 Hyundai Heavy Industries employees were indicted in this case, and all of them, including Defendant A, were found guilty.
All eyes are on whether the Board of Audit and the Defense Enterprise Agency will impose additional sanctions as a result of this ruling. Especially Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Osi
It is expected that this will have a significant impact on the competition for orders from KDDX, in which companies are competing against each other. Regarding the KDDX business filed by Hanwha Ocean against Hyundai Heavy Industries with the Board of Audit.
Most of the requests for a national audit were dismissed or dismissed after the police began their investigation, but with the conviction of all the suspects this time, there is a possibility that they will be reconsidered. Moreover, the Board of Audit has confirmed that the former Daewoo of the Industrial Bank of Korea in 2019
It is also auditing the process of selling Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering to the Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, and is likely to reconfirm the leak of KDDX blueprints created by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at the time.