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In 1999, Lee would meet Kim, with whom he established BBK and the LKE Bank. Their business enterprise went bankrupt less than a year later. Kim was investigated for alleged involvement in the massive embezzlement and for alleged stock price-manipulation.
Park Geun-hye (pictured in 2013) was accused of being improperly influenced by Choi Soon-sil. The 2016 South Korean political scandal, often called Park Geun-hye–Choi Soon-sil Gate in South Korea (Korean: 박근혜·최순실 게이트), was a scandal that emerged around October 2016 in relation to the unusual access that Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of shaman-esque cult leader Choi Tae-min ...
Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 김용; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용 /金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
In the spring of 2011, the World Bank urged Kenya’s finance ministry to end the evictions until the bank could help the government work out a plan for addressing the Sengwer’s concerns. According to bank officials, Kenyan authorities agreed to stop the evictions until they found new land where the Sengwer could relocate.
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
The World Bank strongly disputes that its money supported the mass evictions in western Ethiopia. Even as Anuak refugees and human rights groups have publicly charged that World Bank money has been used to bankroll brutal evictions, the bank has continued to send hundreds of millions of dollars into the same health and education program.
On September 19, 2024, News Tomato (뉴스토마토), a small media outlet, raised suspicions that during the 2022 special election, President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee suddenly pressed for the nomination of Kim Young-sun in Uichang, Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, after a call with Myung. [7]
The "Dr. Doom" economist called out celebrities for promoting coins after Kim Kardashian's deal with the SEC. Kardashian agreed to pay $1.3 million this week to settle charges of illegal coin ...