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| South Korea’s ex-President Park Geun-hye handed 20-year jail sentence on corruption charges | South Korea’s ex-President Park Geun-hye handed 20-year jail sentence on corruption charges |
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| Park Geun-hye, the first woman to have become President of South Korea, has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars and a hefty fine for giving out bribes and illegally using the government’s off-the-book funds. | Park Geun-hye, the first woman to have become President of South Korea, has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars and a hefty fine for giving out bribes and illegally using the government’s off-the-book funds. |
| Friday's verdict by the Seoul High Court wraps up a years-long trial of Park Geun-hye who was impeached on the back of massive corruption allegations back in 2016. | |
| Judges have effectively reduced her prison term to 20 years from the 30 years asked by public prosecutors, Yonhap reported. Park, aged 68, will also have to pay a sizable fine of 18 billion won (roughly $15 million). | Judges have effectively reduced her prison term to 20 years from the 30 years asked by public prosecutors, Yonhap reported. Park, aged 68, will also have to pay a sizable fine of 18 billion won (roughly $15 million). |
| The Friday hearing was apparently to revise the prison term she is already serving at the Seoul Detention Center. | |
| In 2017, shortly after the impeachment, Park was charged with abuse of power, bribery, leaking of government secrets and coercion. A year later, in 2018, she was sentenced to 24 years, but that term was eventually increased to 25 years when new details of her case emerged. | |
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