In a recent development in South Korea, a court has denied the appeal of the chairman of the Hancom Group’s son, upholding his prison sentence for his involvement in creating slush funds using cryptocurrency. The court found Kim’s son guilty of creating and utilizing slush funds worth 9 billion won ($6.29 million) with virtual assets.
The court’s decision to dismiss the suspect’s appeal and uphold the original judgment also extended to the CEO of Arowana Tech, a cryptocurrency management company facing similar charges. The case dates back to an incident approximately three years ago when Kim’s son and another executive from a Hancom Group affiliate allegedly collaborated to sell around 14.571 million Arowana tokens through a local crypto consultant.
The initial accusations claim that the suspects transferred approximately 8.03 billion won ($5.6 million) worth of Ethereum and Bitcoin to the chairman’s son’s crypto wallet. As a result, the court sentenced the suspect to three years in prison on charges of breach of trust under the Specific Economic Crime Aggravated Punishment Act.
Kim’s son was arrested last December and detained until March of this year. Subsequently, he was granted bail to attend trial without detention, only to return to prison following the court’s affirmation of its initial ruling. The court emphasized that the chairman’s son and the CEO of a subsidiary company had exploited the public’s interest in virtual currency to attract investments, deeming their actions a severe crime and a social menace deserving stringent punishment.
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