A special counsel was established after Lee Jae Myung was elected president<\/a> in June to investigate 16 criminal allegations<\/a> against Kim. However, Wednesday\u2019s arrest warrant covered only three charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prosecutors allege she made<\/a> over 800 million won (\u00a3428,000) through manipulating the stock prices of Deutsch Motors, a local BMW dealership, between 2009 and 2012, by conspiring with others to artificially inflate shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is also accused of receiving<\/a> over 270 million won worth of illegal political funding through free opinion polling services, and using this<\/a> to influence candidate selections for the conservative People Power party in the country\u2019s 2022 byelections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third charge involves accepting luxury gifts including Chanel handbags<\/a> and expensive jewellery<\/a> from the Unification Church through a shaman intermediary, in exchange for favourable treatment of development projects in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kim was questioned for over seven hours<\/a> by investigators last week before the arrest warrant was sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On issuing the warrant, judge Jeong Jae-wook cited \u201cconcerns about evidence destruction\u201d as the primary reason for detention, according to Yonhap News<\/a>. Kim had spent four and a half hours in court, where she denied all charges against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the hearing, Kim reportedly expressed frustration<\/a> about her personal affairs being scrutinised, telling the judge she was \u201cupset that even issues from before my marriage keep being brought up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She will be held at Nambu detention centre in south-western Seoul, separate from her husband, who has been in custody at Seoul detention centre since July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once considered to wield enormous influence behind the scenes during her husband\u2019s presidency, the former arts exhibition company executive was embroiled in a series of issues throughout his term, including the infamous Dior bag scandal<\/a>, which prosecutors are now also reinvestigating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In recent weeks, her master\u2019s<\/a> and doctoral<\/a> degrees were both revoked over thesis plagiarism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Korea\u2019s former first lady Kim Keon Hee, the wife of the impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested on corruption charges, a special prosecutor leading a wide-reaching probe said. 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