SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean investigators on Friday indicted the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church, Hak Ja Han, over allegations that she instructed church officials to bribe the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him.

Han, widow of the church’s founder Sun Myung Moon, has denied the allegations, and the church condemned her arrest last month as a disrespectful act against an “internationally respected religious leader.”

The church’s alleged ties to former first lady Kim Keon Hee, who was arrested and charged in August over bribery and other suspected crimes, have become a central focus of ongoing special investigations into Yoon’s presidency.

Yoon, an outspoken conservative, was formally removed from office in April

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