Later this morning, former Supreme Court Chief justice Yang Sung-tae is due at the prosecutors' office to be questioned about his alleged involvement in the abuse of power at the judiciary.<br />Yang was the Supreme Court's chief justice from 2011 to 2017.<br />He's refusing to stand in the "photo line" in front of the prosecutors' office, which is the norm for highly influential suspects, and instead will be giving a speech in front of the Supreme Court, just down the street.<br />Experts say he will likely continue the deny the allegations against him.<br />Yang is accused of using trials as bargaining chips in the Supreme Court's dealings with the previous Park Geun-hye administration to achieve his long-envisioned plan of establishing a separate court of appeals. <br />He will be the first former chief justice to appear before prosecutors as a criminal suspect. <br />
