SEOUL, May 12 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's special counsel on Tuesday sought a four-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk-yeol on charges of violating the Political Funds Act.
The team of Min Joong-ki, an independent counsel who led an investigation into corruption allegations involving Yoon and his wife Kim Keon-hee, demanded the four-year jail term on charges of receiving free opinion polls from self-proclaimed political broker Myung Tae-kyun.
The special prosecutor team requested a three-year prison term for Myung.
Yoon was accused of conspiring with his wife to receive illegal public opinion polls free of charge from the political broker on 58 occasions from April 2021 to March 2022 ahead of the 2022 presidential election in exchange for the illegal nomination of a former People Power Party lawmaker in a parliamentary by-election later that year.
Yoon was sentenced to life in prison in February for insurrection stemming from his martial law declaration.
The emergency martial law was declared by Yoon on the night of Dec. 3, 2024, but it was revoked hours later by the National Assembly.
The constitutional court upheld a motion to impeach Yoon in April 2025, officially removing him from office.
He was indicted under detention in January 2025 as a suspected ringleader of the insurrection, becoming the first sitting president to be arrested and indicted. ■
