South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament in a surprise move on Thursday voted to allow prosecutors to serve an arrest warrant against the main opposition leader who is facing an investigation into bribery and breach of duty charges.
Members of parliament have immunity against arrest when the assembly is in session unless its members vote to rescind it with a simple majority. Lee's Democratic Party holds 167 seats in the 297-member parliament.
Lee is accused of asking a company to illegally transfer $8 million to North Korea when he was the governor of Gyeonggi Province. He is also accused of breaching his duty over losses of 20 billion won by a municipal development corporation during his time as mayor of the city of Seongnam.He and many members of his party have criticised the investigations against him as a political witch hunt.
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