It was confirmed that the Board of Audit and Inspection disallowed the application for parental leave by a working-level auditor who participated in the Moon Jae-in administration’s audit of the ‘suspicion of distortion of the murder of a civil servant in the West Sea’. According to political circles on the 18th, Auditor A, who participated in the audit of the West Sea incident, went to the UK to study for 1 year and 10 months through the overseas long-term training system for civil servants in August 2024, and was scheduled to return to Korea last June. Mr. A applied for parental leave for 6 months until the end of this year to take care of his children who are staying in the UK. However, the Board of Audit and Inspection ‘partially refused’ the approval, saying it appeared to be ‘for the purpose of avoiding investigation,’ and only granted 17 days of leave from the 1st to the 17th of this month. Mr. A is a person who participated in the Moon Jae-in administration’s audit of the ‘suspicion of distortion of the West Sea civil servant murder case.’ The Board of Audit and Inspection established an operational reform task force (TF) in September of last year to reexamine the audit process for the Seohae incident, and in November of the same year, it reported seven people, including Mr. A, to the police, claiming that military secrets were disclosed without security procedures. In relation to this, the Board of Audit and Inspection said that since Mr. A was overseas, the police only conducted a written investigation twice.