▲ Kim Keon-hee
The detention period for Kim Keon-hee, whose custody was set to expire on the 31st of this month, has been extended.
The Supreme Court's Second Division (presiding Justice Oh Kyung-mi), which is reviewing the final appeal in Kim's suspected "selling of government posts" case, held a detention warrant review hearing for Kim this afternoon (the 27th) and issued an arrest warrant.
The Supreme Court cited the "risk of destroying evidence or fleeing" as the grounds for detention.
As a result, Kim's detention period, which was originally scheduled to expire on the 31st, has been extended by two months until the end of this year.
Kim was taken into custody and indicted in August of last year by the independent counsel team led by Min Joong-ki over three major allegations: the Deutsch Motors stock manipulation, the Myung Tae-kyun public opinion poll, and Unification Church bribery suspicions.
Although she was sentenced to four years in prison in her second trial on April 28 of this year, the final sentencing has been delayed as the Supreme Court referred the case to the full bench to review the Myung Tae-kyun public opinion poll allegations.
Meanwhile, as the permissible detention warrant period for this case approached the 31st, the independent counsel team requested the Supreme Court's appellate trial division to issue an additional arrest warrant on the 15th to prevent Kim's release.
Previously, Kim was sentenced to five years in prison in the second trial of the so-called "selling of government posts" case, which involves allegations of receiving expensive precious metals in exchange for personnel and business favors.
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