A former female prosecutor was arrested Wednesday on charges of receiving a luxury designer bag from a law firm and using its corporate car in exchange for peddling her influence to get favorable court rulings.
A district court in Busan issued a warrant to arrest the former prosecutor named Lee, 36, citing “the possibility of the destruction of evidence and suspect flight.”
The former prosecutor has been suspected of having interfered in a case in which a 49-year-old lawyer at the law firm had filed a complaint against two of his former business partners.
She allegedly asked the lawyer to send her 5.4 million won ($4,600) so that she could buy a Chanel bag, in a text that included her bank account number. On Dec. 5, the bag was purchased from a department store in southern Seoul and paid for with the lawyer’s corporate credit card.
She also allegedly drove a Mercedes-Benz leased under the law firm’s name and spent millions of won monthly using the firm’s corporate credit card. The former prosecutor resigned last month after allegations about “sponsorship” by the law firm surfaced.
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