South Korean President bought Viagra pills during her Kenyan visit

Before the prosecution accused Park of being complicit in the scandal, she was set to answer questions this week.

Voices for impeaching the President are getting louder after the prosecution office said on Sunday that Park had conspired with her decades-long friend, Choi Soon-sil, and two former presidential aides in many of criminal acts.

Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the prestigious Ewha Womans University in Seoul as part of an investigation into whether the school admitted Choi Soon-sil’s daughter through the back door.

While South Korea’s Constitution protects a president from being indicted, it still allows for an impeachment, which requires approval from two-thirds of Parliament.

There are concerns about a backlash from conservative voters who – while disappointed with Park – would see her impeachment as unwarranted and overly punitive.

The explanation comes after an opposition party lawmaker revealed on Tuesday that Park Geun-hye’s office purchased the little blue pills past year, buying both the name brand Viagra and a generic equivalent. “There is no proof yet that Park took the millions for herself”, Han said.

“The announcement is not truth at all and but a house of cards built on repeated imagination and speculation that completely ignores objective evidence”.

A swirling cronyism scandal continues to grip South Korea, where prosecutors announced Sunday that the president is a suspect in a criminal fraud investigation that’s already ensnared her close friend and senior aides.

Some of her closest advisers said privately that they hope if she can ride out the next few weeks, she will be able to survive the crisis as public sentiment cooled and more people chose to avoid the turmoil of a premature end to her presidency.

Viagra became the most searched keyword among South Koreans on the country’s main online news portals following the news, which was initially reported by an opposition Democratic Party member of parliament. But they stopped short of saying they would immediately initiate such a move.

While the scandal reflects divisions within South Korean ruling circles, including Park’s own Saenuri Party, the demonstrations are also being driven by far broader popular opposition among workers and youth to her administration’s attacks on basic democratic and social rights. As a sitting President, she can not be prosecuted, but prosecutors are to question her.

Choi had no official position in Park’s government, but she and her rather freakish inner circle – including her personal trainer, her personal gigolo, and a K-pop musical video director – had direct access to the president.

The indictments had been expected.

Local media and opposition parties have accused Choi of using her relationship with Park to accumulate millions of dollars in donations for her foundations. Her aides An and Jeong both stepped down late last month as the crisis deepened.