The eldest son of ex-President Chun Doo-hwan has been sued by his former agent, who was in charge of the son's art collection, for allegedly forcing him to stay abroad during a prosecution investigation in 2013, sources said Tuesday.
  

The agent, identified only by his surname Chun, is seeking 100 million won ($86,000) in damages against Chun Jae-kook in a suit filed with the Seoul Central District Court in February.
  

The plaintiff said he was forced to stay in the United States in July 2013, when prosecutors launched an investigation to reclaim the fortune of the former president, who was convicted of taking bribes while in office in the 1980s.
  

The agent claimed he was damaged as the local media presented him as the person in charge of managing slush funds for the Chun family, the sources said.
  

Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a military coup in 1979, was ordered by the Supreme Court in 1997 to return to state coffers some 220.5 billion won he had accumulated illegally while in office from 1981 to 1988.
  

He had refused to make most of the payment, claiming he was almost penniless.
  

Prosecutors seized about 600 pieces of art during their search of the houses of the former president's family members in July 2013 and sold them at auction, adding 7.2 billion won to the state coffers.
  

The family still has not paid about 100 billion won, about half of the original amount. (Yonhap)