Former South Korean Supreme Court Justice Expected to Be Indicted this Week
Another Park Geun-hye era official is about to be indicted:
Prosecutors are expected to indict former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae later this week on charges that he abused his power to influence high-profile trials as a political tool to lobby the previous government.
Yonhap
Yang, 71, is under pre-indictment detention upon a court approval of his arrest warrant on Jan. 24. He’s the first former chief of South Korea’s top court to have been arrested as a suspect and now to face a criminal trial.
The retired veteran justice with a law career over 40 years is accused of using or seeking to use trials as leverage to lobby the office of then President Park Geun-hye to get her approval for the establishment of a separate court of appeals, his pet project. Yang headed the top court from 2011-2017.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that his charges were proven and that he posed a risk of destroying evidence.
Prosecutors are widely expected to formally indict Yang later this week, right after the Lunar New Year holiday, which ends Wednesday.
You can read more at the link, but if Yang is such a risk to destroy evidence that he needs to be jailed why did they not jail him before the Lunar New Year?
think this is australia with all the kangaroo courts
Commie Moon taking control of the judiciary now and putting more old men in orange jumpsuits.
Moon is jealous of Kim Fatty III
I mean, with Moon being part of the “moderate left” party I always wonder what would happen if the “Justice Party” 정의당 or whatever the name of the far left party will be actually won a three way presidential race if the other two candidates got hit with successive scandles that made them un-electable.