SEOUL: A confidante accused of collaborating with South Korea’s former president for personal gain has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a political scandal that triggered the country’s first presidential impeachment and the conviction of an heir to the Samsung empire.
The Seoul Central District Court yesterday also sentenced the chairman of the Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate, to two years in prison for bribery in the same case.
