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		</div><p>Large crowds of South Koreans were expected to march in the streets calling for the permanent removal of impeached President Park Geun-hye and extending the biggest protest movement in the country to Christmas Eve.</p>
<p>The protest comes as a special prosecutor widens an investigation into a corruption scandal surrounding Ms Park, which saw millions of people take to the streets before the country&#8217;s opposition-controlled parliament on December 9 voted to impeach her.</p>
<p>Organisers expected Saturday&#8217;s rally in Seoul to be festive, but there was tension as Ms Park&#8217;s conservative supporters planned to gather in nearby streets.</p>
<p>The Constitutional Court has up to six months to decide whether Ms Park should permanently step down or be reinstated.</p>
<p>Her presidential powers are suspended until then, with the prime minister serving as the government caretaker.</p>
<p>State prosecutors have accused Ms Park of colluding with a long-time friend to extort money and favours from the country&#8217;s largest companies and allow her confidante to manipulate government affairs from the shadows.</p>
<p>They have now handed over their investigation to special prosecutor Park Young-soo, whose team on Saturday was planning to summon the president&#8217;s arrested friend, Choi Soon-sil.</p>
<p>Investigators earlier on Saturday summoned the country&#8217;s former vice sports minister Kim Chong, who among other allegations is suspected of helping Choi wrest money and favours from Samsung, the country&#8217;s largest business group.</p>
<p>Samsung is under suspicion that it sponsored Choi to win government backing for a controversial merger deal between two affiliates last year that helped promote a father-to-son transfer of leadership and corporate wealth at the group.</p>
<p>Samsung&#8217;s Lee Jae-yong, son of ailing group chairman Lee Kun-hee, has apologised over the use of corporate funds to buy a horse for Choi&#8217;s daughter, Yoora Chung, an equestrian athlete, but denied that Samsung sought favours from Choi or Ms Park&#8217;s administration.</p>
<p>The National Pension Service, which was raided on Wednesday, supported the merger between the two Samsung affiliates even though the fund&#8217;s stake in one of the companies lost an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars in value.</p>
<p>Samsung is also one of the country&#8217;s major companies that gave a combined 77.4 billion won (£53 million) to two non-profit foundations Choi allegedly controlled and abused to expand her personal wealth.</p>
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