The prosecutors of South Korea accused former Liberal President Moon Jae-in for bribery charges on Thursday, April 24, saying that an economic airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative work duration in office in office. Moon’s accusation adds it to a long list of South Korean leaders who have faced judgments or scandals at the end of their terms or after leaving office.
Prosecutors claim that Moon, who served as president of 2017-2022, received bribes for a total of 217 million Wones ($ 151,705) from Lee Sang-Jik, founder of the Thai East Jet budget, in the form of salaries, the then healthy 2018-2020 house. The media of South Korea reported that Moon’s daughter and her husband divorced in 2021.
The Jeonju district prosecutor said in a statement that Lee was also accused of paying bribes to the moon and committing trusted infractions.
The Prosecutor’s Office said that Moon’s former son -in -law was hired as an employee at the director of the Lee company in Thailand, even thought he had no work experience in the airline industry. The office said it only spent periods of letters in the company’s office in Thailand and made only minor drafts while claiming to work remotely from South Korea. The prosecutors’ office said he had not found evidence that Moon made political favors for Lee, who worked in Moon’s campaign, but reads probably expected his help to be reimbursed.
Later, Lee was appointed head of the SME and Startup agency funded by the State and was nominated by Moon’s party to run for Parliament while Moon was in office, but the office of prosecutors said he has not found. There was no immediate response from the moon.
Political crisis
Moon’s accusation occurs before South Korea elected a new president on June 3 to succeed the conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was expelled from an unfortunate imposition of martial law. It is an uncle if Moon’s accusation will influence the prospects for liberals to recover the presidency.
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The majority of the adjustments to the presidents of South Korea have been involved in the scandal in the last months of their terms or after leaving the position. In 2017, Park Geun-Hye, the first woman president of South Korea, moved from office and arrested an explosive corruption scandal.
Park’s conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-Bak, was also arrested in a variety of crimes, years after leaving office. The friend and former liberal president of Moon Roh Moo-Hyun jumped at his death in 2009 in the midst of corruption investigations in his family.
Moon is well known for his impulse to reconcile with the rival of North Korea, since he with North Korean leader Kim Jong a three times and facilitated the beginning of high -risk nuclear diplomacy between Kim and President Donald Trump.
Park’s conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-Bak, was also arrested for E to advance its nuclear program against international sanctions and pressure.
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