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200360
Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:16
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Former police chief gets 6-year jail sentence for bribe-taking
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- A former police chief was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for taking bribes in return for his influence peddling in a number of business deals and personnel affairs.
Kang Hee-rak, who served as the chief of the National Police Agency from 2009 till 2010, was also ordered to pay 170 million won (US$157,261) in fines and forfeit another 170 million won he took in bribes from a lobbyist.
Prosecutors on Tuesday sought a two and a half year jail sentence for the lobbyist, Yoo Sang-bong. Also a businessman, Yoo is accused of brokering a number of contracts to operate lucrative makeshift cafeterias at construction sites and bribing officials of construction firms and police in the process.
"It was accepted that the defendant acted inappropriately as a police chief," Judge Seoul Beom-shik of the Seoul Eastern District Court said, adding that Kang introduced Yoo to a number of police officials across the country to contact for lobbying.
Kang, 59, was detained and indicted in February on charges of taking from Yoo 190 million won while in office in exchange for helping him win the rights to run the makeshift cafeterias. The former police chief was also charged with illegitimately peddling his influence to promote some police officers with links to Yoo.
Lee Gil-bum, a former maritime police chief, was also sentenced to 18 months in jail last month for taking more than 30 million won in bribes from the same lobbyist.
Kang Hee-rak, who served as the chief of the National Police Agency from 2009 till 2010, was also ordered to pay 170 million won (US$157,261) in fines and forfeit another 170 million won he took in bribes from a lobbyist.
Prosecutors on Tuesday sought a two and a half year jail sentence for the lobbyist, Yoo Sang-bong. Also a businessman, Yoo is accused of brokering a number of contracts to operate lucrative makeshift cafeterias at construction sites and bribing officials of construction firms and police in the process.
"It was accepted that the defendant acted inappropriately as a police chief," Judge Seoul Beom-shik of the Seoul Eastern District Court said, adding that Kang introduced Yoo to a number of police officials across the country to contact for lobbying.
Kang, 59, was detained and indicted in February on charges of taking from Yoo 190 million won while in office in exchange for helping him win the rights to run the makeshift cafeterias. The former police chief was also charged with illegitimately peddling his influence to promote some police officers with links to Yoo.
Lee Gil-bum, a former maritime police chief, was also sentenced to 18 months in jail last month for taking more than 30 million won in bribes from the same lobbyist.
