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US returns $1 million stolen by former South Korean leader
The United States has returned more than a million dollars to South Korea that were embezzled by a former dictator and hidden abroad, officials said Tuesday.
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Washington: The United States has returned more than a million dollars to South Korea that were embezzled by a former dictator and hidden abroad, officials said Tuesday.
South Korea's former president Chun Doo Hwan was convicted of corruption in 1996 in his own country, but it took US agents years to track down the assets.
The money was returned on Monday and, on Tuesday, US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met Korean Justice Minister Kim Hyun-Woong to congratulate him.
US officials said the return of the funds, $1.13 million in today's dollars, demonstrated Washington's commitment to rooting out the profits of theft by foreign leaders.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the seizure "a powerful vindication of the rule of law and an important victory for the people of the Republic of Korea."
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