Seoul, April 6 (IANS) A special counsel team on Monday demanded a 10-year prison term for South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol during the appeals trial of his obstruction of justice case stemming from his 2024 imposition of martial law. Special counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team sought the sentence at the final hearing at the Seoul High Court, double the five-year term handed down by a lower court in January.Yoon was convicted by the lower court of obstructing investigators from detaining him la…
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Seoul, Jan 29 (IANS) A golf driving range was found to have been constructed illegally on the presidential residence compound used by ousted former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, the state auditor said on Thursday.The facility was built at the orders of then Presidential Security Service (PSS) chief Kim Yong-hyun and disguised as a guard post in official construction documents, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said in a report.The BAI did not state whether Yoon personally gave the …
Seoul, Jan 27 (IANS) A South Korean court on Tuesday allowed live broadcasts of this week’s ruling on the corruption and bribery case of former first lady Kim Keon Hee. The Seoul Central District Court said it accepted broadcasters’ request to air the verdict, which will be delivered at a hearing scheduled for 2:10 p.m. Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency reported.The court typically allows live broadcasts in consideration of the public interest.Special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team has requested a 15-y…
Seoul, Jan 19 (IANS) Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal team on Monday submitted an appeal against a court ruling that sentenced him to five years in prison on charges that included the obstruction of investigators’ attempt to detain him last year.Last Friday, the Seoul Central District Court handed down the sentence in the first ruling on charges stemming from Yoon’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.Chief among the charges was that the then president had o…
Seoul, Jan 17 (IANS) Legal representatives for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday accused a Seoul court of being politically motivated in its sentencing of their client the previous day.On Friday, the Seoul Central District Court handed down a five-year prison term on Yoon on charges that included the obstruction of investigators’ attempt to detain him last year. It was the first ruling on charges stemming from Yoon’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.In…
Seoul, Jan 16 (IANS) Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on charges that included the obstruction of investigators’ attempt to detain him last year. The Seoul Central District Court delivered the verdict in the first ruling on charges stemming from Yoon’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.The sentence was half of what special counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team had requested last month, saying the former president committed a “grav…
Seoul, Jan 15 (IANS) Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will receive his first court verdict on charges stemming from his December 2024 imposition of martial law later this week, officials said on Thursday.The Seoul Central District Court will hold the sentencing hearing of Yoon’s trial on special obstruction of public duty and other charges in connection to his failed martial law bid at 2 p.m. Friday.It marks Yoon’s first sentencing of the eight cases he is standing trial on, including…
Seoul, Dec 29 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung made his first commute to work at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday, following the formal relocation of the presidential office to the historic compound about seven months after he took office.A motorcade escorting Lee’s vehicle passed through the front gate of the main building at around 9:10 a.m. as dozens of his supporters waved the national flag and shouted his name near the entrance to the compound, Yonhap news agency reported.At Cheong Wa Dae…