A Seoul district court was scheduled to deliver its verdict Monday for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of accepting illegal donations in the form of free opinion polls.
The Seoul Central District Court was scheduled to hold the sentencing hearing for Yoon and the power broker, Myung Tae-kyun, at 2 p.m. after a special counsel team indicted them both on charges of violating the Political Funds Act.
Yoon is accused of colluding with his wife, former first lady Kim Keon Hee, to receive 58 opinion polls worth about 270 million won ($180,100) in total from Myung for free between April 2021 and March 2022.
Special counsel Min Joong-ki's team has demanded a four-year prison sentence for Yoon and a three-year term for Myung. The jailed former president has denied requesting Myung for opinion polls or making promises in return.
In April, an appeals court acquitted Yoon's wife on the same charges of accepting free opinion polls from Myung, upholding a lower court's not guilty verdict.
