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06-04-2018, 07:39 PM
Former South Korea Leader Park Sentenced to 24 Years in Jai
By Kanga Kong and Yoojung Lee
April 6, 2018, 2:12 PM GMT+8 Updated on April 6, 2018, 4:52 PM GMT+8
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes that exposed deep links between politics and the nation’s corporate giants.
A panel of three judges at the Seoul Central District Court found the former leader guilty of most of a dozen charges ranging from bribery to coercion, abuse of power and the leaking of state secrets. The sentence was more lenient than the 30 years sought by prosecutors. Park can now appeal to a higher court.
Park, 66, who was impeached last year over an influence peddling scandal that led to protests by hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of the capital, didn’t show up at court. She denied most of the allegations, head judge Kim Se-yoon said.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...sing-power
By Kanga Kong and Yoojung Lee
April 6, 2018, 2:12 PM GMT+8 Updated on April 6, 2018, 4:52 PM GMT+8
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes that exposed deep links between politics and the nation’s corporate giants.
A panel of three judges at the Seoul Central District Court found the former leader guilty of most of a dozen charges ranging from bribery to coercion, abuse of power and the leaking of state secrets. The sentence was more lenient than the 30 years sought by prosecutors. Park can now appeal to a higher court.
Park, 66, who was impeached last year over an influence peddling scandal that led to protests by hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of the capital, didn’t show up at court. She denied most of the allegations, head judge Kim Se-yoon said.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...sing-power
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