Appeals court increases sentence for ex-first lady to 4 years for corruption

Government

An appeals court on Tuesday increased the sentence for former first lady Kim Keon Hee from 20 months to four years in prison on corruption charges. The Seoul High Court handed down the sentence during a hearing that was televised live, after finding her partially guilty of involvement in a stock price manipulation scheme and guilty of accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church. It acquitted her, however, of receiving free opinion poll results from a self-proclaimed power broker,

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