President Pyeong-hui’s imprisoned friend Cui Shunyi told a group of lawmakers visiting her in detention on Monday that she did not commit any crime and denied all allegations.

Choi is currently detained in custody for allegedly using her relationship to manipulate the country’s affairs, a central figure in an out-and-out ugly scandal that led to the bombing of the president earlier this month. .

“Choi spent most of her time frustrated with her final situation,” said Chang Je-won of the ruling Saenari party, who is a member of the parliamentary inquiry committee and interviewed Choi in her detention facility.

The closed-door interview lasted more than two hours when legislators visited his room in the detention facility in southern Seoul.

Including Cui, the former presidential aides involved in the scandal – Anqing Chong and Zheng Hecheng – were also questioned by lawmakers.

As the last meeting of the scandal investigation, the parliamentary group tried to hold hearings at the facilities that are holding Cui and the presidential aides.

But none appeared, and they said that their appearance could affect pending trials and ongoing investigations.

Instead, legislators interviewed them in the cell.

During the meeting, Cui rejected all of the charges surrounding her, including accusing her of deducting money from the group and transferring it to the two foundations she runs.

She also stated that she had never committed any crime with the President Park and had not committed any wrongful acts.

The 60-year-old Cui also said she had never seen former President Kim Jitang and former President’s Secretary for Home Affairs, Wu Bingyu, suspected of failing to carry out their duties and allegedly allowed Cui to intervene in state affairs.

Meanwhile, Assistant President An told the legislators that Park had instructed him to allow these conglomerates to contribute to the Cui Foundation.

A was responsible for coordinating government policy until he resigned in October in a scandal.

In the interview, Zheng En, the president’s assistant, acknowledged that he had handed the classified documents to Cui, who edited some of them.

Including a list of presidential speeches and candidates for government posts.

Before the interview, the lawmakers condemned them for refusing to attend the hearings, saying they acted in the same way as defiance of the National Assembly and that they would take legal action against them.

“It’s like Cui and the people fighting, if we retreat, do not see Cui, it will be a victory for Cui and the failure of the people.

Ha Tae-keung of the Saenuri Party, a bipartisan group member. “We should stay here until Cui appears.

Legislators have high expectations for the rare parliamentary inquiry held in prisons.

A similar survey was conducted for the first time in 1997 when an enterprise group leader was tried in jail for causing the country’s worst financial crisis.

But when the weekend, when Choi and the presidential aides informed legislators that they refused to attend the hearings, this unexpected meeting was hit.

In addition to imprisonment and fines, there is no legal measure to compel them to appear in court – the relatively lenient punishment of witnesses who have been imprisoned.

Some members of the Panel angrily pointed out that the National Assembly should enact a law requiring witnesses to testify when they received a subpoena from the legislator.

“We can not force Cui to take a position because there is no legal basis to enforce it,” said the Democratic Party’s main opposition party, An Min-sheng.

“When we hold a plenary meeting today, we must pass a bill to force them to attend.

Kim Jong-Jin, the third-largest People’s Party representative, urged legislators to hold hearings for Cui and extend the working hours of her bipartisan commission.

The Commission is due to be completed by 15 January.

Since the commission was launched in November, members of the team have worked hard to find conclusive evidence linking Cui to the president.

The legislator was barred from investigating the Presidential Office and the main witness refused to participate in the parliamentary inquiry.

At the past five sessions, Cui had taken no position and no former President Anheuser-Generis.

They put forward the rationale for the risk from physical illness to the impact of ongoing investigations.

“My biggest disappointment is that most of the major witnesses in the investigation refused to take a position,” said Kim Sung-tai, the Saehari party’s managing director, who is chairman of the third legislative committee and chairman of the bipartisan committee.

But the legislators managed to summon some high-profile presidents

A special investigation team on Monday attacked families and offices surrounding President Parker and her believers’ corruption and influence scandals, including the park’s former right-hand man and current culture minister.

Kim Ki-choon, a former presidential clerk, was one of 10 places where the scandal-related attacks were led by independent lawyer Park Young-soo.

Kim, 77 years old, suspected of tolerance, and even protect the park’s long-term friend Cui Shun-shi of a variety of illegal activities. Choi is accused of committing rape, corruption and abuse of power with Park and her former aide.

He has repeatedly claimed that he has no knowledge of Cui, but recently admitted that he had some understanding of her.

The man, once known as the invisible hand behind the park administration, was suspected of exerting an undue influence on the Ministry of Culture as part of his efforts to protect Cui’s interests and complaints against the president.

Kim was recently banned from leaving the country, suspecting the then deputy culture minister, Jin Haibin, to have six senior ministry officials resigned in 2014.

Former Minister of Culture Yu Jinrong claimed that this is a prerequisite for the establishment of Peace Movement Foundation, a non-profit organization is believed to raise funds to Choi.

The humiliated presidential assistant is also involved in a suspicion of the so-called “blacklist” surrounding the cultural opposition to the government.

Local citizens’ groups earlier this month filed a complaint with Kim’s team against Kim, accusing him of directing the Ministry of Culture officials to create lists and banning them from participating in state-funded projects.

The current Minister of Culture Qiao Yun Sun’s home and office earlier in the day was raided, ministries believe that the department managed the list.

Kim Ki-young has also been accused of appointing a former vice-minister of culture, Kim Jong-il, as deputy director of the Organizing Committee of the PyongChang Winter Olympic Games in 2018.

On Monday, the Special Adviser team questioned the allegations by the team of special advisers and suspected that he had forced local companies to provide financial support to organizations associated with Cui and his family.

Investigators suspect that these donations may have an impact on Cui – he and the President, the largest donor is the Samsung Group.

Earlier Monday, former home minister Moon Hyung-pyo and Kim Chang-soo – senior secretary of the Health and Welfare Department at Tsinghua University – questioned their request for a national pension service to support the controversial merger of two Samsung groups by 2015.

“I think it’s fair to say that the moon is suspected of abusing his authority,” an independent lawyer team official said.

The merger between Samsung C & T and Cheil Industries is seen as crucial to Samsung’s vice chairman and successor apparent Lee Jong Yong to tighten control of the entire Samsung Group.

The Lee family effectively “owns” the group through a complex cross-ownership structure.

Former head of NPS asset management Hong Wan Yang, was also summoned to the special investigation team on Monday to question the role of his merger.

He denied receiving the order of the then Minister of the Moon to support the move but refused to answer any other questions.

In addition to Kim Ki-choon, another former park assistant, Woo Byung-woo, was also investigated for allegedly tolerating Cui’s mistake.

The prosecution’s Woo Task Force formally ended their work, dissolved on Monday and handed the investigation file to an independent team of lawyers.

In addition to the allegations of negligence and abuse of power – both related to the Choi scandal – Woo was accused of misappropriating all the funds of the family, claiming that his son was biased during compulsory military service by borrowing the names of hidden personal assets and receiving rebates through him The family’s property is sold in the shadows of Seoul.

While Woo’s Choi-related suspicions will be handled primarily by the Park Young-soo team, according to officials, the remaining investigation by the former president’s secretary will be conducted jointly by the Seoul Central District Attorney’s Office.

TAIPEI –

A group of Chinese warships led by China’s exclusive aircraft carrier, China’s so-called routine maneuvers, said on Monday after passing south Taiwan into the South China Sea peninsula, the defense ministry of the autonomous island.

The move comes from renewed tensions in Taiwan, which Beijing claims to be incompatible with state-to-state relations and to bother Beijing after President Donald Trump, the US president, calls the island’s president.

The Soviet-built Liaoning Airlines took part in previous exercises, including some exercises in the South China Sea, but China was a few years away from perfect airline operations, similar to what the United States had practiced for decades.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said that the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, flew southwest of the Taiwan-controlled Platamese Islands to the south-east.

Transportation Group as early as the southernmost tip of southern Taiwan, 90 nautical miles, after the Bashi Channel, Taiwan and the Philippines.

“Vigilance and flexibility have always been a normal way to maintain airspace security,” Minister Chen said, adding that Taiwanese fighters have been disrupted or whether submarines have been deployed.

Chen said the ministry continued to “monitor and grasp the situation.”

Taiwan’s senior opposition National Assembly Speaker Johnson said that the Liaoning exercise is the Chinese signal to the United States, it broke through including the Japanese Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan, including the “first island chain.”

The US State Department said on Monday that its position has not changed since July, saying it is continuing to monitor China’s military modernization and wants the Defense Forces exercise to be in line with the law. The Pentagon’s representative declined to comment.

Trump spokesman Hipp Hicks said the team did not comment on China’s actions. Trump took office on January 20, but has made headlines in a series of statements by China and Taiwan.

In Beijing, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Huachun Ying said that the people should not be too much to see the carrier’s thing, because its movement in the legal context.

“We in Liaoning should enjoy freedom of navigation and international law in accordance with the law, and we hope that all parties will respect China’s right,” she said in a daily news briefing.

The influential countries run the Chinese tabloid “Global Times”, said the exercise shows how operators are improving their combat capability, it should now navigate further afield.

“Sooner or later, the Chinese fleet will go to the East Pacific Ocean, when China’s aircraft carrier fleet in the United States one day when offshore areas, will lead to the sea rules of intense thinking,” the newspaper said in an editorial.

China has recently been outraged by the US Navy patrols near China, which it calls the islands in the South China Sea. This month, the Chinese navy seized an underwater UAV in the South China Sea. China was back again.

Japan said late Sunday that it had found six Chinese naval vessels, including Liaoning, through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and the Pacific Ocean.

Japan’s top government spokesman said on Monday that the voyage shows the expansion of China’s military power, Japan is closely monitored.

The Chinese Air Force conducted long-range exercises this month in the east and south China seas, shaking Japan and Taiwan. China says these exercises are also routine.

Last December, the Ministry of Defense confirmed that China is building a second aircraft carrier, but its launch date is not clear. An aircraft carrier flight is a state secret.

The Pentagon said in a report last year that Beijing could build several aircraft carriers in the next 15 years.

China claims that most of the South China Sea, through the annual trade of about 5 trillion dollars of ships. The neighboring countries Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have also claimed.