Park Geun-hye, former president handed to stand trial on charges of involvement in the Saenuri Party candidate nomination process was sentenced to two years in prison is for two years. If Park is sentenced to 33 years in prison in all cases, including the National Assembly's manipulation of state affairs and compensation of the National Intelligence Service's special expenses.
Seoul High Court's first criminal department (director Kim In-gyum) maintained a original ruling on Thursday that sentenced former President Park to two years in prison for rejecting the 스포츠토토prosecution's appeal for violating the Public Officials Election Act.
Former President Park is suspected of having had her party members set up election strategies in the presidential office before the 2016 general elections, and intervening in the Saenuri Party's (current Liberty Korea Party) primary.
In July, the first trial court sentenced former President Park to two years in prison, saying, "The crime is never light in that it is an act to undermine democracy and disable party autonomy."
Park did not appeal the verdict, but prosecutors said the first trial was too light.
The court rejected the prosecution`s appeal, saying, "There are no special circumstances to raise the sentence after the first trial and it is difficult to believe that the original judgment is beyond the reasonable scope of discretion."
"We have examined the records carefully and found that the verdict was not wrong," Park said.
Meanwhile, the former president was sentenced to 25 years in prison and six years in the first trial of the NIS's special expenses.