But their findings further weakened Ms. Park’s authority, and prompted opposition leaders, as well as some members of Ms. Park’s governing party, to demand on Sunday that Parliament start a legal process to impeach her. A former presidential aide to Ms. Park was also indicted on Sunday, on the same charges, as prosecutors accused him of helping Ms. Choi with the extortion. Ms. Park is the first sitting president of South Korea to be accused by prosecutors of a criminal conspiracy. Later Sunday, her office accused prosecutors of losing their political neutrality. Ms. Choi is a daughter of a religious figure who befriended Ms. Park in the 1970s, when Ms. Park’s father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee, was in power.

Source: New York Times November 20, 2016 05:59 UTC