President Park Geun-hye on Friday accepted the resignation of special inspector Lee Seok-su who has been under probe for illegally leaking information on her aide to the media.

Lee was assigned to look into Woo Byung-woo, senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, over allegations that he abused his power to provide special benefits to his son in military service and misappropriated funds of a company that his family had set up.

After reports that he leaked information on Woo to the media, the prosecution seized and searched Lee’s office.

Last month, Lee offered to resign, saying that it would be inappropriate to maintain his position while facing a prosecutorial probe.

The opposition party claimed that the prosecution launched the probe to cease the special inspection against the troubled presidential aide.

By Cho Chung-un (christory@heraldcorp.com)