Reuters: South Korean court to deliver verdict on ousted Park
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court is set to deliver its verdict on former President Park Geun-hye on Friday with prosecutors seeking a 30-year jail term over a scandal that exposed webs of corruption between political leaders and the country’s conglomerates.
Park became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office last year when the Constitutional Court ordered her out over a scandal that landed the heads of two conglomerates in jail.
Park’s ouster led to a presidential election won by the liberal Moon Jae-in, whose conciliatory stand on North Korea has underpinned a significant warming of ties between the rival neighbors.
Park, 66, who has been in jail since March 31 last year, is not expected to be in court when it delivers its verdict and, if she is found guilty as expected, hands down a sentence.
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Update #1: Former South Korean Leader Park Due for Corruption Verdict (US News and World Report/AP)
Update #2: Verdict due in corruption trial of S. Korea's ex-president Park -- AFP
WNU Editor: She is facing a possible 30 year sentence.
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