former presidents being indicted and imprisoned<\/a>. However, this is the first time both the former president and former first lady have been jailed.<\/p>\nYoon was detained in January to face trial over a failed martial law bid last year that plunged the country into chaos and eventually led to his ouster.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Kim, 52, made over 800 million won ($577,940; \u00a3428,000) by participating in a price-rigging scheme involving the stocks of Deutsch Motors, a BMW dealer in South Korea. <\/p>\n
While this allegedly happened before her husband was elected the country’s leader, it continued to cast a shadow throughout his presidency.<\/p>\n
She allegedly also accepted two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace as bribes from the controversial Unification Church in exchange for business favours. <\/p>\n
Among other charges, Kim is also accused of meddling in candidate nominations during the parliamentary by-elections in 2022 and the general elections last year.<\/p>\n
Kim appeared solemn as she attended Tuesday’s hearing wearing a black suit and a black skirt. <\/p>\n
“I sincerely apologise for causing trouble despite being a person of no importance,” she told reporters.<\/p>\n
While he was president, Yoon vetoed three opposition-led bills that sought a special counsel investigation into allegations against Kim. <\/p>\n
He issued the last veto in November, a week before he declared martial law.<\/p>\n
A special counsel was set up in June this year after Yoon’s rival Lee Jae Myung became president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of South Korea’s jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-65661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}