South Korea indicts ex-PM Han Duck-soo and former First Lady Kim Keon-hee

South Korean prosecutors have indicted former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and ex-First Lady Kim Keon-hee in separate cases tied to last year’s failed martial law attempt and ongoing corruption scandals.

Han, 76, faces charges of aiding and abetting ex-President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived martial law declaration, along with perjury and falsifying official documents, Yonhap reported Friday.

Assistant special counsel Park Ji-young said Han played an “active” role by trying to push Yoon’s decree through a Cabinet Council meeting to give it “procedural legitimacy.” Han has insisted he opposed the plan, but prosecutors say his actions helped advance it.

Kim Keon-hee, meanwhile, was indicted for bribery and involvement in a stock manipulation scheme, as well as receiving gifts from the controversial Unification Church. Her lawyers deny the allegations, calling reports of some gifts “groundless speculation.”

Both Kim and her husband, former President Yoon, remain in jail. Yoon, who was impeached in April, is on trial for insurrection and other charges over his attempt to impose military rule.

Kim’s scandals have dogged her for years and damaged Yoon’s conservative People Power Party during his turbulent presidency.

Han twice served as acting president in the chaotic months after Yoon’s martial law decree but later resigned to run in the presidential election. He failed to secure the PPP candidacy. The June 3 vote was ultimately won by opposition leader Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, who famously livestreamed himself scaling the National Assembly walls to vote down Yoon’s decree.