Woman at the heart of South Korea’s political scandal jailed
By Reuters
23 June 2017 |
10:31 am
Choi-Soon sil, the close friend of disgraced former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye, is jailed for three years for abuse of power. It's the first in a string of sentences she's expected to receive.
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