Prosecutors said Thursday they will seek a warrant to arrest a senior police officer for allegedly writing a presidential document that claimed a former aide to President Park Geun-hye tried to exert undue influence on state affairs.
   
Superintendent Park Kwan-cheon is under suspicion of authoring and leaking presidential documents spanning more than 100 pages, including the one that said Jeong Yun-hoe, who was President Park's adviser before she was elected, pulled strings to try and replace President Park's current chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, prosecutors said.
   
Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office said it will ask a court to issue the warrant for Park on charges of making false accusations against Jeong, and leaking the confidential documents outside of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae.
   
"The prosecution is also considering charging Park with defamation after asking Jeong whether he wants the punishment,"
said a prosecutor close to the investigation, adding that Jeong is the victim.
   
The prosecution office earlier confirmed that the superintendent had authored the document alleging Jeong hired a man to follow the president's younger brother Ji-man.
   
The allegations of Jeong's behind-the-scenes intervention in state affairs have become a major scandal for the Park administration ahead of the start of its third year in power in February. (Yonhap)