US calls for arrest brother Ban Ki-moon

new york - The United States has asked South Korea to arrest the brother of former Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon and deliver. This was reported by the American prosecutor Daniel Noble Friday (local time).

Ban Ki-sang (69) and his son, Joo Hyun-bahn (38), nicknamed Dennis, are accused of attempted bribery. Ban Ki-sang had as an adviser to the South Korean contractor Keangnam his son hired as broker to organize the sale of a building complex in Hanoi.

Father and son then paid $ 500 000 to the self-styled art and fashion consultant Malcolm Harris (52). That would be an intermediary to bribe an official from the Middle East and so arrange the sale of the Vietnamese real estate to an investment of a royal family from the Middle East. Harris, however, gave the money on air travel, hotel stays, dinners and rent for apartments in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Harris and Joo Hyun-bahn, both stuck in New York, deny their guilt.

The case comes at an inopportune time for the recently departed to the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, who wants to be a candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections in his country. Saturday he offered his apologies for the surrounding turmoil surrounding his family. In a statement, he said he hoped that the talks between the authorities of South Korea and the US ' accurate and transparent '', so there is no longer grounds for suspicion in South Korea.

Also emphasized the former UN chief that he ' absolutely no knowledge 'had of the case.