PARK RISKS PROBE, NEW PM NOMINEE WARNS
SEOUL: A snowballing political scandal moved closer to embattled South Korean President Park Geun-Hye yesterday, with her prime minister nominee Kim ByongJoon warning she could face a probe, hours after prosecutors detained a former presidential aide. Ahn Jong-Beom was held on Wednesday over suspicions that he helped Park’s friend Choi Soon-Sil coerce companies into donating large sums to dubious non-profit foundations that she then used for personal gains. “My position is that it is (legally) possible to interrogate and investigate” a sitting president, Kim told reporters. – AFP