Worn South Korean President Park Geun-hye (C) is transferred in a car from Seoul to a detention dwelling in Gyeonggi province, South Korea, on March 31, 2017. Worn President Park Geun-hye of South Korea became arrested early Friday as a Seoul court docket licensed the request from prosecutors following her impeachment earlier this month over a corruption scandal embroiling her. (Xinhua/NEWSIS)
SEOUL, March 31 (Xinhua) — Worn President Park Geun-hye of South Korea became arrested early Friday as a Seoul court docket licensed the request from prosecutors following her impeachment earlier this month over a corruption scandal embroiling her.
The court docket said in a assertion that Park’s vital criminal allegations might also be justified while considerations remain about a probability of her destroying evidence.
The arrest warrant, which became sought by prosecutors earlier this week, became issued by the court docket following the Thursday listening to that lasted for nearly 9 hours, the longest-ever in the country’s historic past.
Park changed into the third South Korean venerable chief to be taken into custody. The country’s first feminine president changed into the first chief to be ousted by impeachment, which became licensed by the constitutional court docket in a historic ruling on March 10.