Ousted South Korea leader Park turns to loyalists for defence


  • World
  • Monday, 20 Mar 2017

Supporters of South Korea's ousted leader Park Geun-hye gather outside her private home in Seoul, South Korea, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

SEOUL (Reuters) - A lawyer known as her "bullet-proof vest" is on former South Korean president Park Geun-hye's legal team. So are two failed candidates for parliament from her ruling party.

Park has turned to a group of loyalists for her legal defence as she faces questioning on Tuesday from prosecutors as a criminal suspect in a widening corruption probe that has already cost her the presidency.

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