Planting side number one

The Court of the Central District of Seoul issued an arrest warrant for the former president of South Korea Pak Kyn Hye, reports Yonhap. The hearings lasted more than nine hours.

At the court building, increased security measures were taken. More than two thousand police officers guarded the order. Both supporters and opponents of the president’s impeachment held rallies.

On Monday, the Prosecutor's Office of South Korea demanded to arrest Pak . The accusation was afraid that she, remaining free, would try to destroy evidence.

"The accused abused her great power and the status of the president in order to receive bribes from companies and infringe on their rights to freedom of corporate governance," the prosecutor’s statement said. It was noted that PAK also allowed a leakage of "important confidential information about state affairs."

The prosecutors emphasized that they collected a large number of evidence, but the ex-president denies most of the accusations.

On November 20, 2016, the prosecutor's office announced the interim results of the investigation in the case of a close friend of the President Choi Song Sil, as well as two former employees of the presidential administration. They were charged with corruption, extortion and abuse of official powers. In particular, we are talking about allegedly provided pressure to a number of companies in order to transfer tens of millions of dollars to funds controlled by Choi.

The scandal began when the journalists of the cable channel found a number of secret documents in the bin of the hotel, including the drafts of 44 presidential speeches, with the edits made by its assistant. The media wrote that Choi enjoys his influence on the president in order to gain access to secret documents, and also affects state policy, while not holding any positions in the government.

Pak recognized only the fact that her friend assisted her in terms of communication with the press and really edited some of her speeches. Now Choi is under arrest. Pak twice apologized. She conducted serious personnel permits, replacing the prime minister, the Minister of Finance, the head of his administration and the political secretary. A wave of protests swept through the country, whose participants demanded the resignation of the head of state.

On March 10, the Constitutional Court of South Korea approved the impeachment of Pak . With impeachment, the ex-President loses privileges that are supposed to former heads of state: a lifelong pension of 70 percent of salaries, three assistants, a personal driver and free medical services in state clinics. In addition, she will be provided with security for only five, not 10 years.

The ex-president also loses immunity from criminal prosecution. This will allow the South Korean prosecutor's office to interrogate PAK on many of those interested in the investigation, in particular, the hem of her close friend Choi and the actual head of the Samsung group of companies Lee Zhe Yon. Earlier, PAK refused to cooperate with the investigation, accusing him of bias and the implementation of a "political order".

The early elections of the new president, according to the law, will take place over the next 60 days. It is assumed that they will pass on May 9.