A local court plans to determine this week whether to detain a former presidential secretary suspected of leaking a classified document alleging that a former aide to President Park Geun-hye meddled in state affairs behind the scenes, court and prosecution officials said Sunday.
   
The Seoul Central District Court will hold a hearing on Tuesday to review the legality of detaining Cho Eung-cheon, who had served as a senior secretary to the president until earlier this year, according to the officials.
   
The prosecution probing the high-profile case sought an arrest warrant Saturday for Cho, who is suspected of ordering or conniving at the alleged document leak by police superintendent Park Kwan-cheon, who had worked under him at the presidential office before stepping down in February.
  
The police officer, now under detention in the case, allegedly copied the over-100-page document and kept it in his office after leaving the presidential office. 
   
Earlier reports said part of the presidential document hidden in the police officer's office was leaked to the Segye Times.
   
Citing the document dated Jan. 6, the local daily reported in late November that Jeong Yun-hoe, a former chief secretary to the president during her term in parliament, had regularly met with a group 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 reported.
   
The presidential office has dismissed the document as nothing but a collection of groundless rumors, asking the prosecution to look into the case. (Yonhap)