SEOUL (AFP) - A woman running a shelter for South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has been found dead in her home, police said on Sunday (June 7), amid a widening probe into a corruption scandal involving its owners.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - A woman running a shelter for South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has been found dead in her home, police said on Sunday amid a widening probe into a corruption scandal involving its owners.
Prosecutors are investigating allegations that activist group the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance misused funds meant for the so-called"comfort women" - a euphemism for Japan's former war-era sex slaves."She came home by herself and the door was locked," police said without giving the woman's name.
The plight of comfort women has been a thorny issue between Seoul and Tokyo for decades and the activist group had campaigned for compensation from Japan. But last month, Ms Lee Yong-soo, one prominent victim, accused the group and its former leader of exploiting comfort women to collect government funds and public donations.The investigation includes allegations that the former leader, Ms Yoon Mee-hyang, embezzled funds to buy apartments and to pay for her daughter's tuition in the United States.
Ms Yoon - who left the group after winning a parliamentary seat in April - has denied all the allegations but apologised for"banking errors".
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