South Korea's prosecutor says indicts former top Park aide, ex-minister
AKIPRESS. COM – South Korea’s special prosecutor has indicted a former culture minister and a former top aide to President Park Geun-hye on charges of abuse of power, coercion and perjury for their role in drafting a blacklist of dissenting artists, a spokesman said.
The indictments are the latest twist in a corruption scandal that has gripped the country for months and led to the impeachment of Park by parliament in December.
A Constitutional Court is reviewing the impeachment vote. If it is upheld, Park will have to leave office and a presidential election will be called, Reuters reported.
Lee Kyu-chul, spokesman for the special prosecutor’s office investigating the scandal, told a briefing on Tuesday former culture minister Cho Yoon-sun, and a former presidential chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, had been indicted.
« The special prosecutor’s office has indicted Kim Ki-choon, Cho Yoon-sun … for abusing power and coercion by making artists and entertainers and organizations with different opinions from the government excluded from support, » Lee said.
Both Cho, who last month became the first sitting member of Park’s administration to be arrested in connection with the scandal, and Kim denied the existence of a blacklist, or playing a role in drawing one up, though Cho later said she had heard of such a list.
The presidential Blue House has also denied that a blacklist existed.
Park has been accused of allowing a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to exert inappropriate influence over state affairs.
Choi is accused of colluding with Park to pressure big businesses to contribute to non-profit foundations backing the president’s initiatives.
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Japanese organisers of this month’s Asian Winter Games have changed the accommodation for Chinese and South Korean athletes after a row over a hotelier’s inflammatory war book, officials and local media said on Tuesday. The Tokyo-based APA hotel group and other hotels will welcome some 2,300 athletes and supporters from more than 30 countries to Sapporo for the February 19-26 Games. But APA, one of Japan’s largest hotel chains, has triggered an angry backlash from China for a book written by APA’s chief executive and placed in guest rooms, which claims that the infamous 1937 Nanjing massacre committed by Japanese troops was a “fabrication”. “Considering an instruction from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and other factors, we have decided that the Chinese and South Korean delegations will not stay at APA hotels,” a Japanese official of the organising committee said. Local media said the two delegations were originally scheduled to stay at APA hotels, but the committee official declined to confirm this. Some 230 Chinese and a similar number of South Koreans are being found new accommodation. The APA chain insisted it would not remove the controversial book, which also disputes Japan’s wartime sex slavery in Korea, from its other hotels in Japan and abroad. But APA said last week it would now “temporarily” remove all items from rooms in Sapporo except those deemed acceptable by Games organisers, though it said the move was not due to external pressure. Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the APA hotel group, wrote the book under a pen name disputing Chinese claims that 300,000 people died in a six-week killing spree by the Japanese military. The Japanese invaded China in the 1930s and the two countries fought a full-scale war from 1937 until Japan’s defeat in World War II in 1945. Some respected foreign academics estimate a lower number were killed in the Nanjing massacre, but there are few mainstream scholars who doubt that it took place.
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