Anchor: Former President Park Geun-hye has refused to answer prosecutors' questions over allegations she pocketed National Intelligence Service funds. Prosecutors are expected to further charge the impeached president based on testimonies and evidence secured so far.
Our Bae Joo-yon has more.
 
Report: Former President Park Geun-hye has refused to speak to a group of prosecutors who visited her cell to question her on bribery allegations.
 
A team of prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office visited the Seoul Detention Center on Tuesday to interrogate the ex-president.
 
Park did appear before the prosecutors in an interrogation room, but refused to give any statement before heading back to her cell.
 
Park has been boycotting her trial, which continues to be held in absentia as the impeached president has refused to show up in court.
 
Prosecutors were planning to question Park on allegations that she received nearly four billion won in special activities funds set aside for the National Intelligence Service(NIS) at the rate of between 50 million and 200 million won a month when she was president.
 
Even if Park continues to refuse to face questioning, prosecutors plan to additionally charge her with bribery based on testimonies they have already secured.
 
Former NIS chiefs, Nam Jae-joon and Lee Byung-kee, have testified that the special activities funds were delivered to the top office but denied that the money was a bribe. Another former NIS director, Lee Byung-ho, has told prosecutors that the NIS funds were delivered to the top office under Park’s orders.
 
Park’s former secretaries, Lee Jae-man and Ahn Bong-geun, have also said that the NIS funds were given to Park, but stressed that they were only messengers. Lee and Ahn were indicted last Wednesday on charges of delivering NIS funds to the ex-president.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News. 

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