{"id":73467,"date":"2026-09-03T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/73467\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:34:39","slug":"police-raid-bulgari-korea-over-unification-churchs-alleged-watch-gift-to-ex-oceans-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/73467\/","title":{"rendered":"Police raid Bulgari Korea over Unification Church&#8217;s alleged watch gift to ex-oceans minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-p.v1.20251224.a9e6eb136b19492799fa94e981ebb968_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Former Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo arrives at the National Police Agency's headquarters in western Seoul on Friday, to undergo questioning about allegations of receiving cash and luxury gifts from the Unification Church. (Yonhap)\"\/>     Former Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo arrives at the National Police Agency&#8217;s headquarters in western Seoul on Friday, to undergo questioning about allegations of receiving cash and luxury gifts from the Unification Church. (Yonhap)  <\/p>\n<p>Police on Wednesday raided the South Korean headquarters of Italian luxury brand Bulgari as part of an investigation into allegations that the Unification Church gifted a Bulgari watch to former Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo.<\/p>\n<p>The raid took place at Bulgari Korea&#8217;s office in southern Seoul, with investigators seeking to seize records of purchases made by the church&#8217;s officials and track the whereabouts of the watch Chun allegedly received in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Chun is accused of receiving the luxury watch worth over 10 million won (US$6,900) from a former church official, who is also implicated in other bribery cases, including one involving former first lady Kim Keon Hee.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister, who has been booked on charges of accepting a bribe, has strongly rejected the allegations, denying ever receiving illegal gifts from the church.<\/p>\n<p>Police raided Chun&#8217;s residence and office last week but failed to find the luxury watch.<\/p>\n<p>Chun, a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party, resigned as oceans minister earlier this month soon after the allegations surfaced. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo arrives at the National Police Agency&#8217;s headquarters in western Seoul on Friday, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12776],"tags":[11637,4955],"class_list":["post-73467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bulgari","tag-bulgari","tag-lvmh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}