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Yoon Suk Yeol Faces Harsher Sentence | South Korea News
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a mounting legal storm as prosecutors demand a four-year prison term and forfeiture of over 137 million won, tied to allegations he accepted illegal political donations in the form of free opinion polls valued at 270 million won — allegedly 58 times between late 2021 and early 2022. While a lower court convicted him on 14 of those incidents, the special counsel is pushing for harsher penalties in the appellate phase, including a three-year sentence for Myung Tae-kyun, who previously received an 18-month term. Meanwhile, Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, has been…
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