Kim Keon-hee Faces Supreme Court Hearing on Additional Arrest Warrant 9 Days Before Detention Expiration

A Supreme Court hearing will be held to decide whether to further detain Kim Keon-hee, the spouse of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, with her detention period expiring in nine days.

The Supreme Court's Second Division (Presiding Justice Oh Kyung-mi), which is deliberating the final appeal in Kim's suspected "selling of government posts" case, will hold an arrest warrant hearing at 2:30 p.m. on the 27th.

Previously on the 15th, the independent counsel team led by Min Joong-ki submitted a request to the Supreme Court for an additional arrest warrant for Kim.

Kim is currently detained in connection with three major allegations (Deutsch Motors stock manipulation, Myung Tae-kyun public opinion polls, and Unification Church illicit funds).

The second-trial ruling for this case was delivered on April 28, but the sentencing had been delayed after the Supreme Court referred the case to the full bench to deliberate the "Myung Tae-kyun opinion poll suspicions."

As a result, projections emerged that a ruling would be difficult to deliver before her detention expires on the 31st, prompting the independent counsel team to explain that they requested an additional arrest warrant from the Supreme Court trial division handling the final appeal of the government post-selling case to prevent her release.

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