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Top South Korean Prosecutor Arrested on Charges He Accepted Bribes
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By CHOE SANG-HUN
JULY 17, 2016
SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean prosecutor was arrested on Sunday on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the owner of Nexon, a leading online game maker, in a case that the country’s news media has portrayed as the epitome of corruption among its elite.
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The prosecutor, Jin Kyung-joon, a vice ministerial-level official, is the most senior prosecutor arrested while in office in modern South Korean history.
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His case has rocked the country for months, with public grievances running deep over growing income inequality and the way justice is pursued here. The local news media has reported it as the latest example of how some of the country’s business and government elites promote one another’s interests through collusive ties.
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On Sunday, Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong, who is in charge of prosecutors, apologized to the public, saying he was “embarrassed and despaired” over Mr. Jin’s “corruption and crime.”
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Prosecutors said Mr. Jin received 420 million won, or about $370,000, from Kim Jung-ju, the founder of Nexon, in 2005 to buy unlisted Nexon Korea stock. The next year, they said, he sold the shares back to Nexon Korea for about $880,000.
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He then bought stock in Nexon Japan and netted a fortune after Nexon Japan went public in 2011, selling the stock for $11 million last year, prosecutors said.
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Mr. Jin is also accused of having received a luxury sedan from Nexon.
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Investigators said on Sunday that they were also looking into an allegation that, in return for hushing up a tax investigation against Korean Air, Mr. Jin had forced the airline to give a lucrative contract to a company run by his brother-in-law. Prosecutors have summoned Korean Air officials in the matter.
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Mr. Jin first said in March that he had bought the original Nexon Korea shares with his own money. Then he said some of the money had come from his mother-in-law. He later changed the story again, saying the money was borrowed from Mr. Kim and later repaid.
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Last week, Mr. Jin apologized for lying but did not say whether the money he received from Mr. Kim was a bribe.
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Kim Jung-ju is the largest shareholder of NXC, which controls both Nexon Korea and Nexon Japan. Nexon markets online games popular in Asia and beyond, like KartRider, MapleStory and Dungeon Fighter. He was once hailed as one of South Korea’s richest young tech entrepreneurs.
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Now, lawmakers and newspaper editorials have accused Mr. Kim of using the same corrupt means the country’s traditional business tycoons and conglomerates, known as chaebol, are often accused of using to buy favors and protection. Last week, investigators raided his offices to collect evidence of crime. Mr. Kim said he was cooperating.
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Mr. Jin was the second senior government official brought down in recent days. Last week, a senior Education Ministry official was fired after telling reporters that 99 percent of South Koreans should be treated “like dogs and pigs.”
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The keen attention paid to Mr. Jin’s case reflects widespread mistrust of prosecutors in South Korea, which analysts said dated from the country’s days of military dictatorship, when prosecutors often used fake criminal charges to silence and even execute dissidents.
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In recent years, movies featuring prosecutors kowtowing to business tycoons have become box-office hits. In last year’s “Government at a Glance” report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, South Korea ranked 38th among 42 nations surveyed on citizens’ confidence in their judiciary systems.
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Since May, a retired senior prosecutor and a former judge have been arrested on charges that they collected millions of dollars from businessmen who were on trial, promising to get them lenient treatment by using connections with former colleagues still on the bench or in the prosecutor’s office.
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