A woman running a shelter for South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has been found dead in her home amid a widening probe into a corruption scandal involving its owners.
SEOUL, South Korea – A woman running a shelter for South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has been found dead in her home, police said Sunday, June 7, amid a widening probe into a corruption scandal involving its owners.
Prosecutors are investigating allegations that activist group the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance misused funds meant for the so-called"comfort women" — a euphemism for Japan's former war-era sex slaves."She came home by herself and the door was locked," police told Agence France–Presse without giving the woman's name.
But last month, Lee Yong-soo, one prominent victim, accused the group and its former leader of exploiting comfort women to collect government funds and public donations.The investigation includes allegations that the former leader, Yoon Mee-hyang, embezzled funds to buy apartments and to pay for her daughter's tuition in the United States.
Yoon — who left the group after winning a parliamentary seat in April — has denied all the allegations but apologized for"banking errors".
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