A top aide to the late former President Roh Moo-hyun received a prison term for taking bribes from one of Roh's financial supporters.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Park Jung-gyu, who served as senior presidential secretary for civil affairs from 2004 to 2005, to a three-and-a-half-year jail term.
It also ordered him to forfeit 94 million won ($76,000) out of some 100 million won in gift certificates he received from former Taekwang Industry Chairman Park Yeon-cha.
"Park Jung-gyu insisted that he had tried to return the gift certificates by calling a couple of times and that he ordered his wife to return them (to Park Yeon-cha). But his claim of innocence was not convincing," the court said.
Roh, who served as president between 2003 and 2008, took his own life in May after being grilled by prosecutors on charges of receiving billions of won in bribes from the former Taekwang chairman while in office.