South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has pleaded not guilty at her trial for corruption, the latest stage in her dramatic fall from grace.
The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.
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| Ms Park was in handcuffs as she arrived at court in a prison van |
The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
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| Choi Soon-sil's trial because earlier this year |
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
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| The acting head of Samsung is in jail while standing trial for his alleged role in the scandal |
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights.
In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van.
The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself".
Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter
Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed".
She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look.
Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe.
Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars.
In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted.
Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature.
Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one.
The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s.
Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials.
Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty.
Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger.
Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger.
What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.










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