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Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye was behind bars in the Seoul Detention Centre on Friday after her arrest, on charges including bribery, in a corruption scandal that has brought low some of the country's business and political elite.
In a dramatic fall from power, Park, 65, became South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office. She is accused of colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses to contribute funds to foundations that backed her policy initiatives.
She and Choi, who is already in custody and on trial, deny any wrongdoing.
In the early hours of Friday, the Seoul Central District Court approved prosecutors' request for an arrest warrant for Park after she gave about eight hours of testimony.
Park and her lawyers had argued that she should not be arrested because she did not pose a flight risk and would not try to tamper with evidence. But the court disagreed, and said she might try to manipulate evidence.
Also at Straits Times, Korea Herald, and the Washington Post. Korea Times editorial.
Previously: South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached
President Park Geun-hye's Impeachment Upheld as South Korea's "Trial of the Century" Begins
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:14PM (2 children)
Trump is protected.
Do you really want Pence as President?
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)
No, he seems to think Hillary was scandal free and would remain so. The clintons are nothing but one continuous scandal. Her scandals are long and deep going all the way back to when she worked on the nixon case. She is a multi millionaire. How did she get that money? It sure was not building product or doing things. It was speeches and sketchy political favors. We can sit here and pretend it was otherwise. But that is just as dishonest. She has done things that most people would be in federal prison for many years. She is not because she is connected and has money and knows where the bodies are buried.
Much of the BS that is being bandied about about Trump is just more of the same shit, different actors. Much of it coming from the DNC apparatus trying to make a tempest out of teapot. *nothing* will happen because at this point all I have seen is innuendo and rumors. The dude we have now seems to be made of Teflon. NOTHING sticks. Much of it has been fabricated lies and exaggerated BS. Same BS that was happening under Obama except from 'the republicans'.
Everything is just whatever and nothing of real substance will happen. People think the president is in control. He is not. He is just a visitor. The real people in charge are the lifetime bureaucrats.
We basically had a choice between corrupt zombie or old used car salesman. People decided they liked the used car salesman better. Which says more about our state of politics in this country than anything.
Pence would be just as boxed in. The DNC would make sure of it they are actually *very* good at their flavor of propaganda and virtue baiting. We no longer send people to Washington to help us. We send them to fight against our perceived enemy. The 'enemy' that our friends and family and TV have told us are our enemy.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:57PM
A short history of HRC: http://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/stop-hillary-2/?single=1 [harpers.org]
As to the topic at hand, suffice it to say, if Korea's Park Geun-hye was a Clinton in the US, no amount contributions to CGI or the Clinton Foundation would be found to be inappropriate, let alone illegal.