SEOUL: The woman at the center of the snowballing political scandal engulfing President Park Geun-Hye has been put under emergency detention after prosecutors said she was “unstable” and a flight risk.
Choi Soon-Sil, who has come to be known as a female Rasputin, is facing allegations of fraud and meddling in state affairs over her decades-long friendship with Park. Choi was grilled for hours on Monday after she returned to the country following mass street protests and handed herself in.
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