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Choi Soon-sil, the close confidante of the South Korean president Park Geun-hye, was detained upon her return to Seoul from Germany. Police said a man who drove a digger into the front of the prosecutor's office had told them he believed Choi Soon-sil had committed a crime and deserved to die. Dan Damon spoke to the Â鶹Éç's Stephen Evans in Seoul for an update, and to find out why Choi soon-sil is being compared to the influential Russian faith healer, Rasputin. (Photo: Policemen inspect an excavator after its driver attempted to ram the Seoul Central District Prosecutor"s Office in Seoul where Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the centre of South Korea"s current political crisis, is being held on November 1, 2016. Credit: AFP)