President Park Geun-hye Named as A Bribery Suspect By Prosecutors
I am really curious what evidence the prosecutors have against President Park that she committed bribery because I have yet to see any?:
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye was named a bribery suspect on Tuesday as special prosecutors wrapped up their three-month probe into a massive influence-peddling scandal.
The probe team, led by Independent Counsel Park Young-soo, suspects that the president colluded with her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil and took bribes from the country’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group in return for business favors, its spokesman Lee Kyu-chul said.
President Park, currently awaiting the Constitutional Court’s decision on her impeachment, will not face charges for now as an incumbent president has immunity from criminal indictment.
State prosecutors will decide whether to continue with the investigation into Park as the deadline for the special probe team expires Tuesday.
Special prosecutors indicted Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of Samsung, on charges of giving or promising some 43.3 billion won (US$38.3 million) in bribes to the president’s jailed friend Choi in return for the government’s backing of a merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015. [Yonhap]
I would not be surprised if the prosecutors named her as a bribery suspect just to appease the mobs of protesters knowing full well they don’t have any evidence to charge her.
It looks like you are right that they don’t have enough evidence because the prosecution wanted to delay the judge’s decision until they find something to pin it against her. The request was denied by the acting President which has lead to mass public anger followed by another massive street protests last weekend. The judges will need to decide, are they going convict her without evidence, or are they going to appease the mobs building in the streets. That’s the big question.
I predict the latter.
Isn’t the court convicting her without evidence the same thing as appeasing the mob?
Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say are they going to convict her without evidence to appease the public, or are they going to find her innocent and cause another rounds of protests? I’m guessing they will impeach her no matter what the evidence or the lack of evidence.
@Tyson, it will be interesting to see if the constitutional court has to present evidence to support their impeachment finding. I fully suspect they will uphold the impeachment to appease the mob. Can you imagine the violence that will likely erupt in Seoul if the impeachment is not upheld? I suspect it would be worse than the mad cow riots of 2008.