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  • After President Park Geun-hye admitted to having her speeches edited by her close personal

  • friend Choi Soon-sil, the search is now on to find her, and she's currently believed

  • to be in Germany.

  • Prosecutors have also begun to raid the offices of two foundations that Choi is thought to

  • have set up and managed.

  • Kwon Jang-ho reports.

  • Seoul prosecutors raided nine locations related to people implicated in the Choi Soon-sil

  • scandal on Wednesday.

  • The list of locales includes both the K-Sports and Mir Foundation offices, the home of Cha

  • Eun-teak, who helped establish the companies, as well as the home of Choi herself.

  • Choi is suspected of having used her ties to President Park Geun-hye to gain an unprecedented

  • amount of sponsorships from conglomerates... and it's suspected the foundations were given

  • preferential treatment to win contracts for government-sponsored events.

  • Prosecutors are searching for evidence of any classified documents Choi might have received

  • from President Park Geun-hye, who apologized Tuesday for seeking Choi's advice on her speeches

  • and other documents.

  • But a month has passed since prosecutors first brought the bill of indictment to the Seoul

  • courts, and the effectiveness of the raids has been questioned, as some locations are

  • said to have already been cleaned out.

  • Aside from that, one of the biggest question marks in the case is where the subject of

  • the investigation, Choi, currently is.

  • There are records showing she left Korea in September for Germany, where she is believed

  • to be staying with her daughter.

  • German media outlet Hochster Kreisblatt is reporting that local prosecutors are also

  • looking into companies established by Choi in Germany, Widec and the Blue K.

  • Locals in the town of Arnoldshain were said to have reported concerns about a hotel that

  • was opened under the name Widec Taunushotel in June, but closed soon after.

  • The mother and daughter are also said to have been spotted living in the city in the past,

  • but German authorities have said their current whereabouts are unknown.

  • Kwon Jang-ho, Arirang News.

After President Park Geun-hye admitted to having her speeches edited by her close personal

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