Court rejects arrest warrants for two ex-presidential aides in bribery, election-meddling probes
Social affairsDec 13, 2017
A Seoul court Wednesday turned down the arrest warrant requests for two former top aides from the Moon Jae-in and previous Lee Myung-bak governments accused of involvement in separate bribery and election-meddling scandals. The Seoul Central District Court again refused to issue the writ for Jun Byung-hun, former senior secretary for political affairs to President Moon Jae-in, after it turned down the first request last month. The court said that the bribery and embezzlement charges laid against