Arrest warrant issued for South Korea’s ex-first lady
According to Yonhap News Agency reports, South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon-Hee will be imprisoned immediately after a court issued an arrest warrant for the graft charges denyed.
Kim would be the only former former lady of South Korea to be arrested, and former president Yoon Suk-Yeol, former president, would go to jail in April after being tried after his position to impose a fighting law in December.
In the early hours of the day, who bowed, but did not answer journalists’ questions or made a statement.
After the hearing ended, he left to wait for the decision in an detention center in Seoul in line with the traditional practice.
Who said he would be imprisoned immediately.
The accusations against him, which can be sentenced to prison for years, extend from the bribery and business owners, religious figures and political power broker to the illegal influence.
In 2022, he attended a NATO summit in Spain with his husband, while more than 60 million WON (A66.200 $) worth a luxury Van Cleef necklace is accused of breaking the law on an incident.
According to the fee, it was not listed in the financial statement of the couple as required by the item law.
Kim is also accused of buying a diamond necklace from two Chanel bags worth 20 million Won and a diamond necklace from a religious group, and as a bribe in exchange for the appropriate impact.
The prosecution asked Kim to be arrested for the risk of destroying evidence and interfering with the investigation, and the special prosecutor spokesman said a press briefing after the hearing on Tuesday.
Spokesman Oh Jeong-Hee said that Kim was installed in Hong Kong 20 years ago.
However, the prosecution said it was real and that Kim was given by a domestic construction company to wear it at the summit.
Kim’s lawyers did not comment immediately on Tuesday, but rejected the accusations against him before, and he was dismissed as unquestioned speculation news reports about some alleged gifts.
Yoon is on trial for the uprising charges that may cause life imprisoned and even death penalty.
The former president, who faced the accusation of the abuse of power among others, refused to wrong and refused to attend the hearing or to be questioned by prosecutors.
