USA Urges South Korea To Arrest Ban Ki-Moon's Brother For Corruption

The US Government has asked South Korea to arrest Ban Ki-sang, the brother of former secretary-general of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, for corruption charges as reported by Reuters. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Noble has said the United Stated intends to request the extradition of Ban Ki-sang but has not able to effectuate Sang's detainment as of now.

On 10 January, a Court of Manhattan, New York (USA) filed charges against the brother and nephew of Ban Ki-moon for several cases of bribery. According to the indictment, the brother of Ban Ki-moon and his nephew Joo Hyun 'Dennis' Bahn (son of Ban Ki-sang), have conspired to bribe senior officials from countries in the Middle East in connection with the sale of a building complex in Vietnam for about $ 800 million in a real estate company run by Keangnam Enterprises Co Ltd based in New York, led by Ban Ki-sang operation.

Last December, South Korean media accused the own Ban Ki-moon of accepting bribes of $ 200,000 while serving in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of South Korea, in 2005 and 30,000 in 2007, while serving as secretary General of the UN.

During a hearing in a federal court in New York this Friday, the prosecutor's assistant said that the brother of Ban, who had not yet been arrested, has been requested. The two relatives of former UN chief are accused of corruption, money laundering, and conspiracy, crimes committed between March 2013 and May 2015.

The plot intended that an official from an unidentified Middle Eastern kingdom buy the building in Hanoi using a sovereign investment fund. Presumably, there was an attempt to contact the head of that state when he was in New York for the UN General Assembly. Ban Ki-moon was succeeded on January 1 by the Portuguese Antonio Guterres.