Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, leaves after hearing on a prosecutors' request for her arrest for corruption at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, leaves after hearing on a prosecutors' request for her arrest for corruption at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool) Credit: Ahn Young-joon

Seoul, South Korea — South Korea’s disgraced former President Park Geun-hye was arrested and jailed today over high-profile corruption allegations that already ended her tumultuous four-year rule and prompted an election to find her successor.

A black sedan carrying Park, entered a detention facility near Seoul after the Seoul Central District Court granted prosecutors’ request to arrest her.

Prosecutors can detain her for up to 20 days before formally charging her, meaning she will likely be in jail while her case is heard. District courts normally issue a ruling within six months of an indictment.

The Seoul court’s decision is yet another humiliating fall for Park, South Korea’s first female president who was elected in 2012 amid a wave of conservative nostalgia for her late dictator father.

Prosecutors accuse Park of colluding with a confidante to extort big businesses, take a bribe from one of the companies and commit other wrongdoing. The allegations led millions of South Koreans to protest for months before lawmakers impeached her in December.