South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a lower court to review its conviction of former spy chief Won Sei-Hoon who was jailed for three years for election meddling.
Won, 64, was convicted in September last year for illegally engaging in political acts as head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
The charges related to an online smear campaign by NIS agents against the opposition party candidate whom the current president, Park Geun-Hye, defeated in the 2012 poll by a narrow margin.