Prosecutors said Saturday they were seeking an arrest warrant against a former presidential secretary suspected of leaking a classified ument lleging that a former adviser to president Park Geun-hye meddled in state affairs behind the scenes.
   
The prosecution's move comes a day after government investigators raided the house of Cho Eung-cheon in Seoul in search of evidence that could incriminate him. Cho, 52, had served as a senior secretary to the president until earlier this year.
   
In November, the local daily Segye Times reported that Jeong Yun-hoe, a former chief secretary to the president during her term in parliament, regularly has met with a coterie of 10 key current presidential aides since October 2013 to receive briefings on state affairs.
   
Jeong, who holds no official position in the Park administration, even discussed with them a plot to oust Kim Ki-choon, the current chief of staff to the president, the newspaper said, citing an unspecified presidential document it had obtained.
  
The presidential office flatly dismissed the Jan. 6 document as nothing but a collection of groundless rumors, and asked the prosecution to look into the case.
   
Cho is suspected of ordering or condoning the alleged document leak by police superintendent Park Kwan-cheon who had worked under him at the presidential office before resigning in February.
  
The police officer, now under arrest in the case, allegedly copied the over-100-page document and kept them in his office after leaving the presidential office. Earlier reports said some of those documents hidden in the police officer's office were leaked to the Segye Times. (Yonhap)