Celebrities indicted for illegal gambling receive their sentences

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

Lee Soo Geun (38), Tak Jae Hoon (45), singer Tony Ahn (35), and three other celebrities who were indicted for illegal online gambling, received their sentences today.

Shin Myun Hee, a chief judge at the Seoul Central District Court gave Lee Soo Geun, Tak Jae Hoon, and Tony Ahn a six months prison sentence suspended for one year at the sentencing trial, which was held on December 27.

Prior to this, during the final trial held on December 6, the three celebrities admitted to the charges made by the prosecuting attorney and pleaded for a favorable handling of their case. The prosecution stated, “Their acknowledgement of the crime and regret for their wrongdoings were taken into account.” The prosecution demanded a 10 months prison sentence for Tony Ahn, eight months to Lee Soo Geun, and six months to Tak Jae Hoon in prison with two years probation each.


According to the prosecutor, they were charged for gambling large amounts of money on the English Premier League matches through their smart phones.

The prosecutor also added, the other celebrities who were charged but gambled a smaller amount of money were charged with a fine: broadcaster Boom and singer Andy each received a fine of 5 million won, and comedian Yang Sae Hyung received a fine of 3 million won.

Investigation revealed Tony Ahn gambled 400 million won from May 2009 to March 2012, Lee Soo Geun gambled 370 million won from December 2008 to June 2011, and Tak Jae Hoon gambled 290 million won from February 2008 to April 2011.

Investigation also revealed Andy gambled 44 million won, Boom and Yang Sae Hyung gambled 33 million won and 260 million won, respectively.

Earlier this year, comedian Kim Yong Man was charged and tried for gambling over 1 billion won. The investigation for this case led to obtaining information about these celebrities.

According to the investigation, Tak Jae Hoon, Lee Soo Geun, and Kim Yong Man were lured by an individual who was a member of their soccer club. Tony Ahn, Andy, Yang Sae Hyung, and Boom, who were serving in the military during the same time period, were lured by a broker while they were on leave from the military.


Source: nate via soompi

₩1,000,000 = $943.93 btw

Comments

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

wow this kinda sucks

is there anywhere in korea where gambling is legal?

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Not for Koreans. It's even illegal for them to gamble overseas. They do have casinos and such but open to foreigners only.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

there's not even anywhere outside korea that gambling is legal for korean citizens i'm pretty sure, if they get caught gambling overseas they can still be charged when they come back

i think there is one casino in seoul, but it's only for foreigners, which seems really weird

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

That's really odd - don't a decent number of Koreans - celebs and non-clebs - travel to Macau or Vegas? I find it hard to believe that they only go for the shopping and the shows. :)

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

mm there might be more specifics, but I know several korean celebs have gotten in legal trouble for gambling done overseas

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

So when it says "6 months prison sentence suspended for one year," what does that exactly mean? They go to jail but not?

[9jill9.livejournal.com]

It looks like they're saying that the 6 months prison sentence is suspended pending good behaviour. In another words, if they behave for one year and there is no repeat offense or any other violations, that 6 months sentence will probably not be enforced. If however they do something wrong, that 6 months jail sentence will probably go into effect.

[seewhoiam.livejournal.com]

Woah, sucks for them.
I had no idea that Korean citizens can´t even gamble outside their country, that´s bs.

[catscomics.livejournal.com]

My Korean friends told me this is because the Korean government doesn't want their Korean Won to be 'lost' to the other countries because when people gamble overseas they gamble in large amounts and because most people will lose so those money will be 'left' in other countries and never goes back into Korea. Hopefully this make sense...

[somacomatose.livejournal.com]

woah that is really fascinating tbh

[annhh.livejournal.com]

here we go again.

[misoras.livejournal.com]

lowkey, thought "does this mean boom is off tv for a while"....

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

Korean laws weirdness never ceases to amaze me