As well as serving a jail term, Lee Myung Bak, arriving in court for his trial in 2018, must pay a massive fine and forfeit assets. AFPFormer South Korean president Lee Myung Bak was ordered back to prison yesterday as the country's Supreme Court upheld a 17-year jail term for bribery and embezzlement offenses. The conservative Lee, who served as president from 2008 to 2013, had been out on bail awaiting the ruling. An appeals court later increased his sentence to 17 years but granted him bail pending a further appeal to the nation's highest court. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld his conviction for embezzling 25.2 billion won (HK$172.22 million) and accepting bribes totaling 9.4 billion won.

Source: The Standard October 29, 2020 19:07 UTC