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Park Tong-Sun / 박동순

Tongsun Park(1935), Pak Dong-seon olarak da bilinen para ile ilgili iki siyasi skandalda rolü olan Güney Koreli bir iş adamıdır.Bu olaylar; 1970'lerde Koreagate, diğeri ise 2000'lerde bir yemek programında çıkan olaylardır. Tongsun Park,Washington yemek partileri ve nakit ödemeleriyle kongre üyelerini cezbeden bir parti meraklısıydı.. Bu yüzden "Asyalı büyük Gatsby" olarak bilinen büyük bir şöhreti vardı.
Federal hapishane bürosu web sitesindeki bilgilere göre Park, 10 Eylül 2008'de tutuklu bulunduğu hapishaneden serbest bırakıldı.
Park 1976'da, Güney Kore hükümetinden para alarak Vietnam askerlerini tutmak amacıyla Birleşik Devletlerini ikna etmeye çalışmıştır. Bunun için ABD kongre üyelerine rüşvet teklif etmiştir.
1977'de ABD bölge mahkemesi tarafından rüşvet ve yasadışı kampanyalara katkı sağlandığından suçlanmıştır. Ayrıca Korean Central Intelligence Agency(Ulusal Zeka Hizmetleri kurumunun Kore Kolu) tarafından sahtekar ve gangster olarak kayda geçmiştir.
1992'de ona gayri resmi olarak Saddam Hüseyin'in rejimine lobi yapan Irak'ta doğmuş Bir Amerikalı olan Samir Vincent tarafından teklif geldi. Irak'ın Birleşmiş Milletler'in ekonomik ambargosunu pas geçen bir program hazırlamak istiyordu. Tongsun Park bu teklifi $ 10 milyona kabul etti.. Ve Onlar için çalışmaya başladı. 1997'den sonra Kofi Annan'ın genel sekteri oluktan sonra Irak hükümeti Park ile olan tüm bağlantılarını kesti.
2005 yılında Park'ın ismi bir yiyecek skandalına karıştı ve 2006 Temmuz'da ABD Federal mahkemesinde suçlu bulundu.
22 Şubat 2007'de 5 yıl hapse mahkum edildi. Ayrıca $ 15,000'den $ 1,200,000'e kadar para cezasına çarptırıldı

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Tongsun Park (born 1935), also known as Pak Dong-seon, was a figure in two political money-related scandals: Koreagate in the 1970s, and the Oil-for-Food Program scandal of the 2000s. Park had a reputation as the "Asian Great Gatsby", a socialite who charmed congressmen with his Washington dinner parties and cash payments. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Web site, he was released from prison on September 10, 2008.
In 1976, Park was charged with bribing members of the U.S. Congress, using money from the South Korea government, in an unsuccessful effort to convince the United States government to keep troops in Vietnam. In 1977 he was indicted by a U.S. District Court on 36 counts, including bribery, illegal campaign contributions, mail fraud, racketeering, and failure to register as an agent of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He avoided a federal trial by testifying to the court in exchange for immunity. His testimony did not have a major impact, though it led to three members of Congress getting reprimanded, and may have convinced Speaker of the House Carl Albert to not run for re-election.
In 1992, he was approached by Samir Vincent, an Iraqi-born American who was lobbying unofficially on behalf of the Saddam Hussein regime, to try to create a program that would bypass the United Nations-approved economic sanctions of Iraq that had started in 1991. Park agreed, requesting a payment of US$10 million for his effort, which Vincent agreed to. Park served as a liaison between Vincent and then-United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whom Park was friendly with. In late 1996, partly as a result of Park's lobbying efforts, the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program began. After 1997, when Kofi Annan became the new secretary-general, the government of Iraq dropped its ties with Park; Park had received about US$2 million from them by then.
In 2005, Park's name surfaced as part of investigations into the oil-for-food scandal. In July 2006, he was convicted, in a U.S. federal court, on conspiracy charges. He became the first person convicted through the oil-for-food investigation.
On February 22, 2007 he was sentenced to five years in prison. He was also fined $15,000 and required to forfeit $1,200,000.
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