A South Korean court has sentenced former president Park Geun-Hye to eight more years in prison Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.
A lower court had already sentenced Guen-Hye to twenty-four years in jail after she was found guilty in April of separate charges including bribery, abuse of power and coercion. All sentences are to be served consecutively.
66-year-old Guen-Hye has denied wrongdoing and was not present during the ruling. It is not clear if she will appeal.
She became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office last year when the Constitutional Court ordered her out over a scandal that exposed a web of corruption between political leaders and the country’s powerful conglomerates.
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