South Korea Exfirst lady Kim handed longer graft sentence
News Source : DW (English)
News Summary
- Kim Keon Hee, wife of jailed former South Korean Preisdent 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.
- Kim, known among other things for her efforts to ban Korea's controversial dog meat trade, featured in several scandals while her husband was in office.
- Yoon was handed a life sentence in February, in just one of several cases against him, but he plans to appeal.
An appeals court on Tuesday increased the corruption sentence for former first lady Kim Keon Hee to four years in jail, more than doubling her sentence after she unsuccessfully appealed a prior convi [+3806 chars]
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