Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has been jailed for 15 years and fined $11.5m on multiple corruption charges.
Lee was sentenced in a Seoul court on Friday on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. This makes Lee the fourth South Korean former leader to be jailed over corruption, following his successor's imprisonment in April.
Lee, the president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013, was arrested in March. He denied any wrongdoing and claimed the charges were politically motivated.
During the televised trial, the Seoul District Court ruled that the 76-year-old is the de facto owner of his brother's company, DAS, which is at the centre of the corruption investigation.
The court found the former leader accepted billions of won from major electronics firm Samsung in return for pardoning its chairman, Lee Kun-hee. The company denies having given the former president the money.
The judge at Seoul Central District Court said "heavy punishment for the accused is inevitable" because of the serious nature of the crimes.
Judge Chung Kye-sun said:
Such actions from the president, the head of state and the leader of the executive branch, can be severely condemned as it does not stop at violating the fairness and integrity of the presidential office, but undermines trust in the entire public office.
Bringing everything into consideration, heavy punishment for the accused is inevitable.
Source: ABS-CBN News
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why cant we do this in Ghana? Mahama deserves not less 20 yrs
why do we make unnecessary noise all the time?
if and only if akuffu addo can jail himself first then he can have the courage to jail those who are supposed to be jailed. Ndc Npp are all ***barred word*** and liars. We are happy whats happening in South Korea,in fact we can do same or better if we make corruption unattractive. In the public institutions someone steals and he/she is only transferred to another branch to go continue there oh GH lets be serious for once.
WE LEAVE TO SEE THAT COURAGEOUS AND BRAVE LEADER WHO WILL BE BOLD TO PROSECUTE THE LIKES OF MAHAMA,RAWLINGS, HIS WIFE, AND ALL THE REST. AKUFFO ADDO IT SEEMS ONLY WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT THAT'S ALL. HE DOES NOT HAVE THE GUTS TO PROSECUTE THESE THIEEEEVES. YET THE WORLD IS CHANGING.THE REAL LEADER WILL SPRING UP.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
JOHN MAHAMA AND HIS BROTHER ARE WALKING FREE AND SPLASHING MILLION OF STOLEN DOLLARS TO SUPPORT THEIR DOPEY GIRL FRIENDS LIKE MZBEL,TRACEY BOAKYE, LYDIA FORSON AND MANY OTHERS SLEAZY LIFESTYLES. WHERE ARE OUR MEN OF COURAGE TO STOP THE NDC ***barred word*** GANG TERRORIZING OUR IMPOVERISHED MASSES? THE LIKES OF JOHN MAHAMA, OPUNI, ABLAKWA, IBRAHIM MAHAMA, ASIEDU NKETIA, AFRIYIE ANKRA AND GAZILLION OTHERS IN THE NDC FRATERNITY SHOULD BE SERVING JAIL TERMS AND THEIR ASSETS SEIZED IF WE HAD THE POLITICAL COURAGE LIKE SOUTH KOREA. WHAT A JOKE!
Corrupt John Ford Mahama must be jailed for 30 years for taking bribe from Kanazoe......
Mahamah was doing same with his brother and he is walking freely. One day the trumpet will sound. Nana Addo should act fast.
Ghana should learn from them and jail mahama kronfo), why? What is wrong with Ghanaians? Corrupt leader like mahama is walking free throwing his weight about as if Ghanaians aren't humans. God would punish corrupt politicians like mahama.