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South Korea: Ex-PM Han claims corruption appeal rejection is political

by Our Foreign Desk

A FORMER South Korean prime minister said she was the victim of political vindictiveness after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal against corruption charges yesterday.

Han Myung Sook, who served as premier under peacemaking president Roh Moo Hyun in 2006 and 2007, was convicted of taking about £480,000 in bribes from a businessman in 2013.

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