Ex-Supreme Court Chief summoned by prosecutors for second time over power abuse allegations

Prosecutors summoned Yang Sung-tae, the former Chief Justice of South Korea's Supreme Court,... again this morning to question him over a number of judicial power abuse allegations.Prosecutors are said to be grilling Yang on whether he illegally exercised his power during trials involving the Unified Progressive Party,... a now-defunct far-left minor party.He's also being quizzed on whether he illegally collected confidential documents belonging to the Constitutional Court.Last week,.... Yang was questioned over allegations that he used the Supreme Court to lobby for the former Park Geun-hye administration.He served as the Supreme Court's Chief Justice from 2011 to 2017.