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SEOUL - Prosecutors have raided the house and offices of Kim Un-yong, the world's Tae Kwon Do chief and an International Olympic Committee Vice-President, on allegations he embezzled funds from organizations connected with the martial art.
Prosecution investigators seized a private safe and documents during Tuesday's raid, Chung Chan-soo, an aide at Kim's National Assembly office, on Wednesday. Kim is a national legislator affiliated with the opposition Millinium Democratic Party.
Officials at the Seould District Prosecutors' Office declined to comment on the probe into Kim, South Korea's best known sports official and longtime member of the IOC.
Prosecutors suspect Kim of embezzling funds from the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, which Kim has headed for three decades, and from the World Tae Kwon Do Headquarters, a Seoul - based institute that issues Tae Kwon Do credentials, Chung said.
"We cannot accept the allegations, " Chunf Said. He could not confirm South Korean media reports that prosecutors have banned Kim from travelling abroad.
Kim helped Tae Kwon Do to become a formal medal event in the Olympics in 2000. Critics later accused him of acting arbitrarily and promoting officials who were corrupt but loyal to him. Kim denied any wrong doing.
AP
My wife brought me the print out of this story today from work. She does news at a small radio station
SEOUL - Prosecutors have raided the house and offices of Kim Un-yong, the world's Tae Kwon Do chief and an International Olympic Committee Vice-President, on allegations he embezzled funds from organizations connected with the martial art.
Prosecution investigators seized a private safe and documents during Tuesday's raid, Chung Chan-soo, an aide at Kim's National Assembly office, on Wednesday. Kim is a national legislator affiliated with the opposition Millinium Democratic Party.
Officials at the Seould District Prosecutors' Office declined to comment on the probe into Kim, South Korea's best known sports official and longtime member of the IOC.
Prosecutors suspect Kim of embezzling funds from the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, which Kim has headed for three decades, and from the World Tae Kwon Do Headquarters, a Seoul - based institute that issues Tae Kwon Do credentials, Chung said.
"We cannot accept the allegations, " Chunf Said. He could not confirm South Korean media reports that prosecutors have banned Kim from travelling abroad.
Kim helped Tae Kwon Do to become a formal medal event in the Olympics in 2000. Critics later accused him of acting arbitrarily and promoting officials who were corrupt but loyal to him. Kim denied any wrong doing.
AP
My wife brought me the print out of this story today from work. She does news at a small radio station
