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The Supreme Court has ended in the case of former President Park Geun-hye’s Gukjeong Nongdan case. It has been 4 years and 3 months since October 2016 when the first question mark was stamped. In all, 22 years imprisonment, a fine of 18 billion won and an additional 3.5 billion won was also confirmed. Starting today (14th), JTBC will change its name to former President Park Geun-hye.
First, reporter Oh Hyo-jung.
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There are 14 charges convicted of former President Park Geun-hye.
Many conglomerates were asked to pay tens of billions of won for contributions to Mir and the K-Sports Foundation, received a bribe from the Samsung Group, such as a horseback riding subsidy for Mr. Jeong Yu-ra, created a’blacklist’ in the culture and art world, and excluded various support, and cash to former NIS heads. It received 3.4 billion won worth of special expenses.
The Supreme Court confirmed 20 years in prison.
They were asked to pay a fine of 18 billion won and an additional 3.5 billion won.
In July of last year, the court of revocation and revocation of the revocation court came to the same conclusion, but the prosecution appealed again, and the Supreme Court saw that there was no problem with the conclusion of the revocation revocation examination today.
Until the last trial, the issue was part of the charges of a’cultural blacklist’, which was found not guilty.
At the time of the 2016 general election, Park intervened in the nomination of the Saenuri Party and had already been sentenced to two years in prison.
Together, the sentence is 22 years.
Park became the fourth former president to be sentenced to prison after Chun Doo-hwan, Roh Tae-woo and Lee Myung-bak.
After the ruling, Park’s supporters were scattered around the Supreme Court, shouting “impeachment nullification” and “innocent release”.
This is the final stage of the Gukjeong Nongdan trial.
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s sentence of repatriation for the destruction of’bribery charges’ will come out next Monday.
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