[2nd Report] Supreme Court issues additional arrest warrant for Kim Kun-hee... “Concern about destroying evidence and running away”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Mi-ryeong = The detention period of Ms. Kim Kun-hee, who was set to expire at the end of this month, has been extended.

The 2nd Division of the Supreme Court (Chief Justice Oh Gyeong-mi), which is hearing the appeal in the case of Ms. Kim's alleged 'selling magic', held an interrogation date for Ms. Kim's arrest warrant on the afternoon of the 27th and issued an arrest warrant.

The Supreme Court stated that the reason for detention was 'fear of destroying evidence or running away'.

Accordingly, Ms. Kim's detention period, which was scheduled to expire on the 31st, was extended by two months to the end of this year.

Mrs. Kim was arrested and indicted by special prosecutor Min Joong-ki's team in August last year on three major suspicions (Deutsche Motors stock price manipulation, Myung Tae-gyun opinion poll, and Unification Church bribery).

He was sentenced to four years in prison in the second trial on April 28 of this year, but the appellate sentencing has been postponed as the Supreme Court referred the case to the plenary body to review suspicions regarding Myeong Tae-gyun's public opinion poll.

Meanwhile, the deadline for a possible arrest warrant in this case approached on the 31st.

As it became difficult to issue a sentence before the expiration of her arrest, the special prosecutor's team requested on the 15th that an additional arrest warrant be issued by the appellate court in the sale magic case to avoid Ms. Kim's release.

Ms. Kim was sentenced to five years in prison in the second trial in the so-called sales magic case, in which she received expensive precious metals along with various requests for personnel and interest rights.