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Han Hak-ja was sentenced to two years in prison in August for providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to former first lady Kim Keon-hee while Yoon Suk-yeol was president, in an attempt to secure policy favours. She was granted bail two months later on health grounds, on condition that she stay at a Seoul hospital.
A South Korean court revoked the Unification Church leader’s bail in a bribery case on Tuesday after footage emerged of her visiting the secretive movement’s headquarters in breach of release conditions.
Han Hak-ja, 83, was sentenced to two years in prison in August for providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to former first lady Kim Keon-hee while her husband Yoon Suk-yeol was president, in an attempt to secure policy favours.
She was granted bail two months later on health grounds, on condition that she stay at a Seoul hospital.
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Han Hak-ja will be taken into custody to serve her two-year sentence
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