SEOUL, South Korea– SEOUL, South Korea (AP)– South Oriental detectives on Friday prosecuted the 82-year-old leader of the Marriage Church, Hak Ja Han, over accusations that she advised church authorities to approach the partner of imprisoned previous Head of state Yoon Suk Yeol and a conventional legislator near to him.
Han, widow of the church’s creator Sun Myung Moon, has actually rejected the accusations, and the church condemned her apprehension last month as a rude act versus an “globally valued spiritual leader.”
The church’s supposed connections to previous initial woman Kim Keon Hee, that was apprehended and butted in August over bribery and various other thought criminal activities, have actually come to be a main emphasis of recurring unique examinations right into Yoon’s presidency.
Yoon, a forthright conventional, was officially gotten rid of from workplace in April over a brief martial legislation mandate in December that caused his impeachment.
An investigatory group led by unique district attorney Minutes Joong-ki, which probes corruption accusations bordering Kim, stated it prosecuted Han and her previous principal assistant on fees of bribery, going against political financing regulations, embezzling church funds, and advising the devastation of proof.
Detectives, that have actually proceeded examining Han while she stays captive, case that she and her previous assistant conspired with one more church authorities to provide deluxe products to Kim on 2 events in July 2022 in an effort to look for company supports.
Han is likewise thought of advising the church authorities, that has actually likewise been apprehended, to supply 100 million won ($ 70,000) in kickbacks to conventional legislator Kweon Seong-dong in January 2022, months prior to Yoon was chosen head of state that March. Private investigators declare the church provided to aid Yoon’s governmental project by setting in motion fans and utilizing its business network for future federal government assistance for its plans and occasions it really hoped Yoon would certainly participate in.
Kweon, a strong Yoon loyalist apprehended in August and prosecuted today for going against political financing regulations, has actually rejected getting the church’s cash.
Yoon’s martial legislation lasted just a few hours prior to the liberal-led legislature elected to raise it. He was re-arrested in July and currently encounters disobedience and various other fees.
Existing liberal Head of state Lee Jae Myung has actually likewise licensed 2 various other unique district attorney probes on Yoon, which concentrates on Yoon’s preparation and implementation of his martial legislation charge on Dec. 3 and his federal government’s supposed whitewash of a marine’s sinking fatality throughout a 2023 flooding rescue procedure.
Han is the leading leader of the Marriage Church, formally called the Family members Federation for Globe Tranquility and Marriage, which her spouse established in 1954.
A self-proclaimed messiah that taught brand-new analyses of the Holy bible and conventional family members worths, Moon developed the church right into a worldwide motion with numerous fans and considerable company rate of interests. The church is commonly recognized for mass weddings, combining hundreds of pairs that usually are from various nations.
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