2024-05-10 20:42:18
On the afternoon of the 10th, Criminal Division 9 (Judge Kang Young-ki) of the Seoul Western District Court filed a third case against his sister-in-law Lee, who was indicted on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (defamation) against Park Soo-hong and his wife Kim Da-ye. A trial was held.
On this day, his sister-in-law, Lee, attended the trial along with her legal representative, and Park Soo-hong’s older brother, Mr. Park, also accompanied him. Park Soo-hong also attended as a witness, and Park Soo-hong’s legal representative requested that Park Soo-hong’s witness interview be kept confidential.
The defendant, Mr. Lee, did not want a private interrogation, but Judge Kang Young-ki, the 9th criminal judge, said, “The witness interrogation is related to private life, so it will be conducted privately.” Afterwards, the witness examination was conducted in private.
Park Soo-hong’s side filed a complaint against his sister-in-law Lee in October last year on charges of defamation. Prosecutors said that Lee left a message in a KakaoTalk group chat room for the purpose of defaming Park Soo-hong. The prosecution reported that Lee left a message saying that Park Soo-hong’s claim of embezzlement from his older brother was false and that Park Soo-hong lived with a woman in the past.
In response, Mr. Lee’s lawyer refuted this, saying, “There was no intention to slander, and we were not aware that the message sent was false.”
Meanwhile, in addition to the incident, Park Soo-hong’s older brother and his wife were tried on charges of embezzling billions of won, including company money from entertainment companies Lael and Mediaboom and Park Soo-hong’s personal funds, in the process of managing Park Soo-hong for 10 years from 2011 to 2021. Is in progress.
Last February, the first trial court found his older brother Park guilty of embezzling 720 million won from Lael and 1.36 billion won from Mediaboom. However, he was found not guilty on all charges of embezzling Park Soo-hong’s personal property worth 1.6 billion won. The court sentenced Mr. Park to two years in prison and did not place him in court detention, considering that there was no risk of destruction of evidence or escape. Additionally, the court ruled that the sister-in-law Lee was not actively involved in running the company, making it difficult to prove that she was an accomplice.
Since then, both the prosecution and Mr. Park have submitted appeals and are continuing their legal battle in this case.
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2024-05-10 20:42:18