Former Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan showed up at the prosecutors' office Wednesday to be questioned over bribery allegations.
Prosecutors are to interrogate Choi, currently a lawmaker of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, over allegations that he took 100 million won ($92,000) from the National Intelligence Service when he was finance minister under the Park Geun-hye administration in 2014.
The prosecution believes the money was paid to lobby him for retaining the spy agency's off-book funds when then-opposition parties pushed to scale them down on the basis of their untraceable nature.
Rep. Choi Kyung-hwan of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party answers questions from reporters as he appears for questioning over bribery allegations involving the state spy agency on Dec. 6, 2017. (Yonhap)
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