US EditionSouth Korean court increases ex-first lady's graft sentence
The court convicted her of accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church and manipulating stock prices, while imposing a 50 million won fine and ordering asset confiscation.
- On Tuesday, the Seoul High Court increased former First Lady Kim Keon Hee's prison sentence to four years for bribery and stock price manipulation, reversing an earlier acquittal on the fraud charge.
- Judges reversed an earlier acquittal, ruling Kim guilty of manipulating Deutsch Motors stock while maintaining her conviction for accepting luxury gifts—two Chanel bags and a Graff necklace—from the Unification Church.
- "Kim exerted her influence as first lady and committed the bribery," the lead judge said, adding that her actions undermined "public trust in the transparency of state affairs and the fair execution of national policy."
- This ruling follows the February life sentence of Kim's husband, ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was convicted of insurrection for his failed 2024 martial law declaration in December.
- Lawyers for Kim told AFP they would appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court, while prosecutors may seek a longer term after initially requesting 15 years.
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South Korea: Ex-first lady Kim handed longer graft sentence
Kim Keon Hee, wife of Yoon Suk Yeol, now faces a four-year jail sentence on charges of stock manipulation and bribery. The court also found she accepted gifts from a contentious church, knowing it expected favors.
On Tuesday, South Korea's Justice has raised the sentence of corruption against former First Lady Kim Keon-hee, the wife of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, the man who declared martial law in the country in December 2024, an episode that earned her dismissal and a life sentence for insurrection.The Seoul High Court has corrected the ruling handed down in January by a lower court against Kim and concluded that this former art entrepreneur not onl…
A former incarcerated presidential couple: South Korean justice sentenced on Tuesday on appeal former First Lady Kim Keon Hee to four years in prison for stock market manipulation and corruption, scandals that had sparked the presidency of her husband Yoon Suk-yeol, imprisoned him for insurrection.
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The Straits TimesSouth Korea appeals court sentences Ex-First Lady Kim Keon Hee to 4 years in jail
South Korea's former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her earlier sentence.
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