Prosecutors raided the office of former Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan on Tuesday over suspicions that he took bribes from the state spy agency in the early years of the former Lee Myung-bak government.
Investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office were sent to search the premises and confiscated evidence, the office said.
Bahk, currently a professor at Sungkyunkwan University, is suspected of accepting kickbacks from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) around 2008, when he served as a senior presidential secretary for political affairs. He worked at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae from 2008-2010 and headed the finance ministry from 2011-2013.
Former President Lee Myung-bak, left, and former Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan (Yonhap)
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