Corruption is Everywhere > Especially in the So. Korea's Blue House - Ex-President's wife arrested

 

Korean women are among the most beautiful and elegant in the world. Unfortunately, like their men, they are among the more corrupt, especially when they inhabit the Blue House.

Wife of South Korea's jailed ex-President Yoon arrested

By Thomas Maresca

   

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee (C), wife of impeached former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested late Tuesday after a hearing at the Seoul Central District Court, Pool Photo by Yonhap/EPA

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Kim Keon Hee, the wife of ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested on a range of charges late Tuesday night, including stock price manipulation, accepting luxury goods in exchange for political favors and meddling in election nominations.

The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Kim after a hearing on Tuesday, special prosecutor Min Joong-ki's office said in a brief statement.

In granting the warrant, the court cited the risk of Kim destroying evidence, news agency Yonhap reported.

Kim's arrest marks the first time in South Korean history that a former president and his wife have been jailed.

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• South Korea's Lee, Trump to hold summit at White House on Aug. 25
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• Special prosecutors file arrest warrant for South Korean ex-Pres. Yoon

Yoon, who was removed from office in April, is being held at the Seoul Detention Center on separate allegations related to his botched Dec. 3 declaration of martial law.

Among the charges he faces is insurrection, which is punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Prosecutors allege that Kim made around $580,000 in a price-rigging scheme involving the stocks of Deutsch Motors, a BMW dealer in South Korea, between 2009 and 2012.

She is also accused of receiving Chanel handbags and a diamond necklace from the Unification Church via a shaman as a bribe for business favors.

A third charge claims the former presidential couple influenced candidate nominations for Yoon's People Power Party in local and parliamentary elections.

After questioning by the special counsel last week, Kim told reporters that she was sorry for "causing concern to the people," calling herself a "nobody." She has reportedly denied all allegations against her.

Kim is being held at the Nambu Detention Center in southwestern Seoul, separate from her husband.

She is expected to appear at special counsel Min Joong-ki's office on Thursday for questioning, according to local reports.

Grok:  How many South Korean presidents have been convicted of corruption?

Four South Korean presidents have been convicted of corruption-related offenses, based on available records: 

Chun Doo-hwan (1980–1988): Convicted in 1996 of treason, corruption, and other offenses related to the 1979 coup and the Gwangju uprising. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted to life in prison, and he was pardoned in 1998 after serving two years.

Roh Tae-woo (1988–1993): Convicted in 1996 alongside Chun for treason, corruption, and involvement in the 1979 coup and Gwangju uprising. Sentenced to 17 years in prison, he was pardoned in 1998 after two years.

Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013): Sentenced in 2018 to 15 years in prison for bribery, embezzlement, and abuse of power, notably involving illegal funds from Samsung. His sentence was later adjusted, and he was pardoned by President Yoon Suk Yeol in 2022.

Park Geun-hye (2013–2017): Impeached in 2016 and convicted in 2018 of multiple charges, including bribery, abuse of power, and coercion, related to receiving tens of millions of dollars from conglomerates like Samsung. Sentenced to 20–22 years in prison, she was pardoned by President Moon Jae-in in 2021.

Note: President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested in 2025 and faces an impeachment trial related to his martial law declaration, but no conviction for corruption has been recorded as of the latest information. Additionally, posts on X and some sources suggest broader investigations, but only these four have confirmed corruption convictions.

Yoon probably left the corruption business to his wife.

Bits and Bites from Around the World > Siblings claim their dad was the infamous DB Cooper

 

Siblings claim late dad is mysterious plane hijacker 

DB Cooper after finding hidden parachute in home:

‘One in a billion’

By 

Ronny Reyes

Published Nov. 26, 2024, 11:05 p.m. ET

Is he the real McCoy?

A pair of North Carolina siblings claim their late father is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new report.

Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their father, Richard McCoy Jr., was the infamous fugitive who disappeared when he leaped out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking passengers and crew hostage in 1971, the Cowboy State Daily reports.

The siblings said they waited until their mother’s death in 2020 to come forward, fearing she could be implicated as the parachute that allegedly belonged to Cooper was found in her storage stash outside the house.

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Aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder claimed the parachute found by the McCoy siblings matches the one used by fugitive DB Cooper.

Dan Gryder/YouTube

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A sketch of DB Cooper, the man who hijacked a Boeing plane in 1971 and jumped off with a parachute and $200,000.

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After her death, the siblings met with aviation YouTuber Dan Gryder, who has seen the parachute and believes it’s the very one Cooper used in 1971.

“That rig is literally one in a billion,” Gryder told the local outlet about the unique parachute he saw.

Gryder claimed the parachute at the McCoys’ home matched the modified parachute prepared by veteran skydiver Earl Cossey for police as part of Cooper’s demands before he disappeared somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.

DB Cooper sleuths have raised the possibility that Richard Jr. was the fugitive for years given his own criminal past.

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Sleuths have previously claimed Richard McCoy Jr., a plane jacker who died in a police shootout, was DB Cooper.

Dan Gryder/YouTube

Five months after Cooper pulled off his famous caper, Richard Jr. was caught pulling off a similar hijacking in Utah. The thief eventually broke out of prison and died in a subsequent shootout with police.

The McCoy siblings told Gryder they’ve known the truth for years, but talking about it remained taboo in their family over worries that law enforcement would implicate their mother, Karen, in both hijackings.

Gryder published his latest theory and images of the parachute, with the FBI allegedly reaching out to the McCoys to see the evidence.

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Bills linked to the DB Copper caper were located in Oregon in 1980.

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The McCoys told the Daily the FBI searched the North Carolina complex for additional clues and took possession of the parachute in 2023, with Rick also providing investigators with a DNA sample.

The agents allegedly informed him that the next step could be to exhume his father’s body, but such a request has yet to be made.

The FBI has not made any public statements about the investigation or acknowledged that it has been actively looking into the DB Cooper case.

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The FBI was flagged in 2008 after a family claimed to have found DB Cooper’s parachute near their Oregon home.

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The agency has said the case was officially closed in 2016 over a lack of leads.

Whether Cooper survived the jump over a rugged, wooded landscape somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nev., has never been confirmed.

One of the few clues about the hijacker’s identity was his recovered black tie and a crumbling package of $20 bills matching the ransom money’s serial numbers, which was unearthed by a young boy from a sandbar along the Columbia River in 1980.

Islam - Current Day - Toronto's Muslim Gangster; Links to Stories From My Other Blog - Some Hardly Believable

Four of the worst stories I've ever posted and they are all from Pakistan and recent:

Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List > 

Pakistan's Evils Astonish Even Me, and That's Not Easy to Do

It's not just Pakistan where Muslims kidnap Christian girls and Islamic police and courts back them up:

'Jihad of the Womb': Watchdog Details Systemic Abduction of Christian Girls in Egypt

Losing the War on Christianity in Egypt

Toronto murder victim dodged earlier assassin's bullet with cocaine bribe

Police wiretaps reveal bounty hunter was paid to fake victim's death in 2013

By Sam Pazzano · CBC - Posted: Sep 16, 2020 

Farogh Sadat was shot outside a bakery in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood on June 23, 2020. Police wiretaps reveal there had been two previous attempts on his life. (Muslim Association of Hamilton)

In a plot twist worthy of a Hollywood crime thriller, the victim of a brazen execution in Toronto this summer escaped an earlier hit attempt by bribing a bounty hunter to fake the target's death.

The revelation came from a police wiretap of a phone conversation between the victim, Farogh Sadat, and another man on Jan. 15, 2015, which CBC learned about after recently obtaining a copy of a 2017 court decision about Sadat's bail conditions.

At the time of the wiretapped call, police were investigating the brutal kidnapping of a drug runner, allegedly by Sadat and others, in September 2014.

In the call, Sadat boasted that he bribed his would-be assassin with half a million dollars' worth of cocaine to stage Sadat's death in the Caribbean. Sadat said he then short-changed the bounty hunter by only giving him half of the promised amount.

Sadat, 37, was shot and killed in broad daylight on June 23, 2020, while he was sitting in his SUV with California licence plates at 1346 St. Clair Ave. W., in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood.

It was the third known assassination attempt on his life.

Two previous murder attempts

In the 2017 judgment dismissing Sadat's bail application on the kidnapping allegations, Superior Court Justice Leonard Richetti noted that Sadat had bad blood with Mexican drug dealers in the Greater Toronto Area.

Police were called to the scene on St. Clair Avenue West near St. Clarens Avenue in June,

where they found Sadat in his car, having suffered fatal gunshot wounds. (Devin Keshavjee/CBC)

It started in 2013, when Sadat orchestrated a home invasion robbery. Sadat sent his henchmen to rob a suspected drug runner, H.G. (CBC is withholding his identity, as his life is likely at risk.) They grabbed $40,000 in cash and $20,000 worth of jewelry, and H.G. also gave them the keys and location of a stash house, where they stole several kilograms of low-quality cocaine.

That home invasion robbery was never reported to police.

A year later, on Sept. 6, 2014, Sadat and others allegedly kidnapped H.G., beat him and held him hostage for 12 hours, seeking information about another stash house. After that, the drug dealers put a bounty on Sadat's head, wrote Richetti.

On Sept. 23, 2014, shooters mistook Sadat's brother-in-law Ghorzang Zazai for Sadat, wounding Zazai and killing a friend, Gul Alakoozi, outside Sadat's parents' home in York region, north of Toronto. At the time, Sadat was living with his parents, who were his sureties for guns and drug possession charges in a Toronto hotel room in June 2014.

'We can't even fight these guys'

The wiretapped 2015 call was a conversation with Alakoozi's father. In it, Sadat told him he "knows" his son's killers, but York Regional Police say no one has been charged for the shooting and the investigation is ongoing. 

Sadat admitted on the call that he had sold up to 20 pounds of cocaine and "bought a couple of houses" with the profits of his criminal activity, but that he wasn't wealthy enough to mount a battle against the heavily armed drug lords.

"We can't even fight these guys, because I don't have the money like these guys," he said. Sadat also said he had a "toy" – meaning a handgun – because he didn't trust anyone at the time.

Sadat also disclosed his first assassination escape, in 2013. 

He said that a bounty hunter kidnapped him in the Dominican Republic, but that he bribed his would-be killer by offering him double the price of the hit — "10 bricks" (kilograms) of cocaine, worth $525,000.

The bounty hunter then staged Sadat's death by covering his "corpse" in fake blood as it lay in a Dominican ditch and photographing the "hit." But Sadat said he only gave him "half the bricks."

Sadat went into hiding on the West Coast and later tried to resolve the dispute with the drug barons.

'I hit a home run'

The drug dealers eventually discovered Sadat was still alive after he and others were busted and charged with possessing guns, drugs, a bulletproof vest and silencer after a maid spotted a man with a firearm inside a Toronto hotel room in June 2014.

Police found evidence on a laptop in the hotel room that Sadat and his partners had placed a tracking device on H.G.'s car, as well as details of a plot to pose as cops, abduct H.G. and force him to surrender the keys and location of a stash house.

Sadat's charges were stayed, however, after another man pleaded guilty. "I hit a home run," said Sadat on the wiretap.

Before H.G. was abducted in September 2014, a Peel Regional Police sergeant warned H.G. his life was in jeopardy and left her business card with him.

When the kidnappers took H.G. hostage that September, they discovered the officer's business card in his personal effects. Fearing H.G. might be under surveillance, the captors let him go after he agreed to give them some cash and the name of another potential kidnapping victim. He provided them $5,000 cash but not another name. Two days later, H.G. went to Peel Regional Police.

'Potential for further violence'

In a 2017 judgment dismissing Sadat's bail application on the kidnapping allegations, Justice Richetti wrote, "Any informed member of the public would be shocked that Mr. Sadat would be released into the public."

Sadat's vehicle at the scene in June.

Police continue to investigate Sadat's death.

(Paul Borkwood/CBC)

"Given the matters described by Sadat in the wiretaps involving shootings, bounty, faking deaths, retaliation and other criminal activity, the potential for further violence looms large," stated Richetti.

The judge quoted a "chilling" conversation between Sadat's wife and a co-accused's brother, in which Sadat's wife said, "If [the kidnapping victim] doesn't drop the charges, then they want to get rid of everyone involved permanently."

The kidnapping charges against Sadat were stayed in 2018 after Sadat's lawyer, Deepak Paradkar, undermined H.G.'s credibility during cross-examination at the preliminary hearing.

Toronto police continue to investigate Sadat's killing.