The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict next week on corruption charges faced by former first lady Kim Keon Hee.
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict next week on corruption charges faced by former first lady Kim Keon Hee, the wife of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, legal sources said Friday.
The sentencing hearing will be held at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, the sources said, after Kim and a special counsel team both appealed a Seoul High Court ruling in April that sentenced her to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery.
Kim is charged with involvement in a stock price manipulation scheme, involving Deutsch Motors, a BMW dealer in South Korea, between October 2010 and December 2012 and making illegal profits of 810 million won. She also faces charges of accepting a Graff diamond necklace and two Chanel bags from a former senior Unification Church official through a shaman in 2022.
The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed an 18-month prison term for the former Unification Church official, Yun Young-ho, and finalized a five-year sentence for the shaman, Jeon Seong-bae.
