Former BIGBANG member Seungri (real name Lee Seung-hyun) enlists at the 6th Division Recruit Training Center in Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do last year. Reporter Park Jong-min
Seungri (31, Lee Seung-hyun), a former member of the group Big Bang, was sentenced to three years in prison for arranging prostitution for foreign investors and gambling abroad.
At the sentencing hearing in this case held at the General Military Court of the Ground Operations Command in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 12th, the court sentenced Seungri to three years in prison and additionally collected 1,156.9 million won.
The court said, “The accused arranged prostitution with a foreign person in order to promote the future.” “Strict punishment is necessary because it harms a healthy sex culture, such as mobilizing prostitutes in a short period of time and entertaining foreigners every time they come, and there is not much harm to society.” ” he judged.
He explained the reason for sentencing, “Considering the length of the crime and the scale of the method, the crime is never light.”
Regarding the charge as a teacher of special assault, “The accused called someone to threaten the victim because he had an argument and felt bad, and the circumstances and quality of the crime at the time of the crime were not good.” The psychological damage is great, such as remembering the facts clearly.”
The court said, “From the investigative agency to the court, the accused denies that it is something he does not know, and is not reflecting on it, such as transferring the responsibility to others. As the impact is large, the potential for criticism is also high.”
Standing in court that day, Seungri sighed or shook his head as his charges were convicted one by one. Seungri bowed his back and covered his face.
After receiving the final conviction, Seungri sat down with his head bowed for a while.
According to the conviction, Seungri was arrested on the same day.
From December 2015 to January of the following year, Seungri was charged with arranging prostitution several times to investors from Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong in order to attract investment for clubs and financial investment businesses. At the same time, he is also accused of buying sex himself.
He was also charged with embezzling 528 million won of funds from the club ‘Burning Sun’ in the name of brand royalties for Monkey Museum, a pub in Gangnam, Seoul, and for stealing 22 million won from Yuri Holdings’ company funds in the name of employees’ personal attorneys’ fees.
From December 2013 to August 2017, he was charged with spending 2.2 billion won on gambling at a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, USA, and not reporting anything in the process of lending chips worth 1 million dollars as gambling funds. are receiving
