The leader of the association of the church, which leaves the country when the government does not examine a bribes

A religious guide was excluded to abandon the country because of the suspicion of bribing the former First Lady Kim Keon Hee with luxury gifts.
Prosecutors who investigate the allegations that Jeon Seong-Bae-a shamanic personality, which is connected with allegations of the political pedding of the former First Lady, received luxurious gifts for Kim, recently broken off the association manager of the Association, Han HAK-JA, the sources said on Thursday.
Although Han has so far been treated as a witness, the prosecutors do not rule out the opportunity to name them a suspect in the course of the examination, the Joongang Ilbo reported on Thursday.
The probe focuses on the suspicion that a high -ranking civil servant of the Association of Association or the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Yoon Joon Jeon Jeon 2022 -including a Diamond necklace and a Chanel handbag worth 60 million WON (43,000 US dollar) -casualty as gifts for Kim.
The prosecutors check whether these items were offered in exchange for favors in connection with church interests. The authorities also examine whether the management of the church, including Han, is behind Yoon's alleged lobbying.
The church has contested any organizational participation and distanced itself from Yoon's actions.
In a recent declaration, the Church of the Association said that the allegations refer to “private motivations and actions of one of the many people associated with the organization” and that they “have no connection to the global mission of the church”.
The group also expressed “strong regret” about what it described as attempts to exploit their spiritual authority for “secular political purposes in the middle of the ongoing national and international turbulence”.

Translated from the Joongang Ilbo with generative AI and edited by Korea Joongang Daily Staff.
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