South Korean prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office raided the offices of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) on Nov. 16 in their investigations into whether a military procurement official had leaked confidential information on military equipment to BAE Systems.
“Prosecutors spotted a possible leakage of confidential information to a foreign defense industry company while they were investigating DAPA’s mismanagement of a project to upgrade KF-16 fighter jets,” an anonymous official told Yonhap news agency.
BAE Systems was given a contract back in 2011 to upgrade the country’s F-16s but the deal has since collapse.