SEOUL, December 15 (AJP) - Police on Monday raided about a dozen locations of the powerful Unification Church, also known as the Moonies over allegations of bribing political figures.
The raid began at around 8:50 a.m., when a special investigation team from the National Police Agency carried out a search and seizure at the official residence of the church's leader Han Hak-ja in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province and 10 other facilities in Seoul.
The raid came after Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Chun Jae-soo resigned last week amid allegations that he accepted bribes from the church.
The church is suspected of bribing a slew of lawmakers from both the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) in favor of its long-held, unfeasible dream of constructing an underwater tunnel between South Korea and Japan.
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