South Korea’s former Justice Minister Cho Kuk was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for influence peddling and abuse of power in a case of irregularities that included accepting favors to gain his children admission to several universities.
The Seoul Central District Court said he was also found guilty of interfering in a corruption case using his power when he was an advisor to now former President Moon Jae In.
Justice imposed dozens of charges in 2019 against Cho, who was also accused of forging documents to help his children to be admitted to educational institutions, according to information from the Yonhap news agency.
He has also been charged with receiving bribes valued at 6 million won (about 4,000 euros) in the form of a scholarship for his daughter. He has now been found guilty of most of the charges.
«The offenses committed by the defendant were recurrent and also dated back to his time as a university professor,» said the court, which exonerated him of other charges.
His wife, Chung Kyung Sim, has also been sentenced to one year in prison for collaborating in some of the irregularities committed. Chung had already been sentenced to four years in prison for falsifying academic documents for several of his children.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
