{"id":4332,"date":"2018-04-09T01:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T05:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=723a3230f331b5f8e03a8c3bf497f620"},"modified":"2018-04-09T01:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T05:57:04","slug":"another-former-south-korean-leader-charged-with-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/another-former-south-korean-leader-charged-with-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Another former South Korean leader charged with corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of &#8212; South Korean prosecutors say they&#8217;ve indicted former President Lee Myung-bak on bribery, embezzlement and other charges.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s indictment Monday came three days after his successor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison for a separate corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The Seoul Central District Prosecutors&#8217; Office said Monday it charged Lee with taking a total of 11 billion won ($10 million) in bribes from the country&#8217;s spy agency, Samsung and others.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has also been charged with embezzling about 35 billion won ($33 million) of official funds from a private company he owned and evading corporate taxes totalling 3 billion won ($281,270).<\/p>\n<p>Lee was a Hyundai executive and a Seoul mayor before serving as president from 2008-2013.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been at a Seoul detention centre since his arrest last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of &mdash; South Korean prosecutors say they&rsquo;ve indicted former President Lee Myung-bak on bribery, embezzlement and other charges. Lee&rsquo;s indictment Monday came three days after his successor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison for a separate corruption scandal. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors&rsquo; Office said Monday it charged Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}