Opposition Grills Justice Minister as Prosecutors Find No Grounds to Charge First Lady in Dior Bag Scandal l KBS WORLD

After prosecutors investigating the luxurious bag scandal involving First Girl Kim Keon-hee determined to not additional proceed with the case, the primary opposition Democratic Get together(DP) on Friday grilled Justice Minister Park Sung-jae concerning the matter. 

Throughout a full session of the Nationwide Meeting’s Laws and Judiciary Committee, DP lawmaker Jeon Hyun-heui pressed the minister, arguing that the choice will enable spouses of rating authorities officers to obtain costly presents. 

The justice minister throughout the session counter argued that Rep. Jeon ought to legislate associated legal guidelines as a substitute of calling for punishment when no laws exist for the prosecution to proceed additional. 

A probe workforce on the Seoul prosecutors’ workplace earlier this week discovered no grounds to indict the primary woman over the case.

After President Yoon Suk Yeol’s inauguration, the primary woman in September 2022 obtained a luxurious bag value about three million received, or some two-thousand-235 U.S. {dollars}, from a Korean American pastor, who recorded the scene with a hidden digital camera on his wristwatch.

Prosecutors concluded that that the bag was extra doubtless given as a “technique of facilitating conferences” fairly than as a bribe for favors.