Lawyers for South Korean President Park Geun-hye have rejected a plan by a special prosecutor investigating a graft scandal to question her, citing a media leak, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
SEOUL: Lawyers for South Korean President Park Geun-hye have rejected a plan by a special prosecutor investigating a graft scandal to question her, citing a media leak, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
The plan was to question Park on Thursday at an undisclosed location, Lee Kyu-chul, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, told a media briefing.
But Park’s office had notified the prosecutor that it was scrapping an agreement on the questioning, Lee said.
« There is no change to the position that a face-to-face questioning of the president is necessary but there has been no decision specifically on the schedule from this point on, » he said.
Lee said Park’s lawyers had notified the prosecutor’s office of the decision after a television station said in a Tuesday broadcast Park would be questioned on Thursday at an office inside the presidential Blue House compound.
