SEOUL June 17 Kyodo southward Kor...

SEOUL June 17 Kyodo

southward Korean prosecutors said Monday the next to the first son of President Kim Dae Jung will be questioned Wednesday from one side of to the other allegations he took bribes in respond for exercising his influence in business deals.

Kim Hong Up was told to appear at the Central Investigation Department of the highest Public Prosecutors' Office at 3 pm Wednesday, they said.

Yonhap of the present days Agency reported that the junior Kim is suspected of having received about 2 billion won (about $17 million) from business nation in return for exercising his influence in their deals.

upon June 5, Kim Hong Up's younger brother, Kim Hong Gul was indicted forward charges of influence-peddling and tax evasion.

A slew of corruption scandals surrounding the president's son and first note of the scale aides has severely damaged his government's popularity.

The main opposition Grand National Party won a sweeping victory in local elections held last Thursday by way of capturing 11 key mayoral and gubernatorial stations out of the total 16 at stake.

The local elections were widely viewed as a weathervane of voter sentiment ahead of the Dec 19 presidential vote

The 76-year-old president, who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to ask inter-Korean rapprochement, is constitutionally barred from seeking a inferior five-year single term when his use ends in February next year.

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