Police raid the headquarters of the Unification Church in Seoul, Monday, over allegations of offering cash to politicians. Yonhap
Police on Monday recognized Unification Church chief Han Hak-ja as a suspect in a bribery case involving politicians from each ruling and opposition events because it carried out sweeping raids for the investigation, officers mentioned.
Han, who’s at the moment on trial for allegedly offering luxurious items to former first woman Kim Keon Hee — the spouse of former President Yoon Suk Yeol — is accused of involvement within the newest case that includes a number of politicians, together with former Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo.
As a part of the investigation, police despatched investigators to the church’s Cheonjeonggung, often known as Han’s residence, in Gapyeong County and the church’s headquarters in Seoul and eight different places for searches and seizures.
Han Hak-ja, chief of the Unification Church, is seen after attending a listening to on the legality of her arrest over fees of bribery linked to former first woman Kim Keon Hee on the Seoul Central District Court docket, Sept. 22. Yonhap
Police search to additionally search Chun’s residence and workplace in addition to the houses of former Democratic Get together of Korea lawmaker Lim Jong-seong and former United Future Get together lawmaker Kim Gyu-hwan on suspicion of receiving bribes from the church.
The investigation happen after a former church official implicated within the bribery case involving the previous first woman testified at court docket that the church sought to assist each ruling and opposition get together politicians.
Police are anticipated to make use of the raids to grab the church’s accounting information and find the bribes the church allegedly gave the politicians, together with luxurious watches to Chun.
In the meantime, police additionally despatched investigators to the workplace of particular counsel Min Joong-ki because it believes the crew didn’t totally ship investigation information when it transferred the case final week.
Chun, who resigned as oceans minister final week, and the 2 former lawmakers have all rejected the allegations.
The previous church official, Yun Younger-ho, has additionally been booked as a suspect for offering bribes.
