SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean woman, Kyeon-hee and former prime minister Han Dak So were charged on Friday in a special investigation following the expulsion of the former president who imposed martial law.
The wife of imprisoned former president Yoon Suk Yeol was accused of receiving financial markets and political funding laws, as well as bribery, about two weeks after the court ordered her arrest.
Han was accused of Yong’s imposition of martial law. Investigators say they forged and destroyed the rebellion’s summons and official documents, and lied under their oaths.
Three special prosecutor investigations It was launched under President Lee Jammune, a liberal president, who targeted a lawsuit filed last December to impose martial law.
Yoon’s defense minister, military commander and police officer were arrested for his involvement in the imposition of martial law.
That was Yoon Removed from the office in April and I rebooted last month About his December martial law order.
Kim and Yoon are suspected of exerting excessive influence on the conservative People’s Power Party to nominate specific candidates in the 2022 legislative by-election at the request of election broker Myung Tae-Kyun. Myung faces accusations of conducting a free opinion survey against Yun using manipulation data that could help him win the party’s presidential primary Before the election as president.
Kim apologized earlier this month for causing public concern, but suggested that she would deny allegations against her and portray herself as a “insignificant person.”
Assistant Special Counsel Park Ji-yong told the televised briefing that Han was the best official who could have thwarted Yoon’s attempt to impose martial law. Park said Han played a “active” role in Yun’s declaration of martial law by attempting to pass Yoon’s order through a meeting of the Cabinet Council as a way to grant “procedural legitimacy.”
Han claimed that he told Yoon that he opposed his martial law program.
Han, appointed second-ranked prime minister by Yeon, was the proxy leader of South Korea after Yoon was fired each in mid-December.
After Yoon was officially rejected as president by the Constitutional Court decision, Han was to continue leading the caretaker government until the presidential election in June. Han resigned in order to seek the president’s appointment instead, but Yoon’s Conservatives chose someone else.
