
Yang Hyun-suk (52), former representative producer of YG Entertainment, will hold the 10th trial on charges such as retaliation and threats of retaliation.
The 23rd Criminal Settlement Division of the Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Cho Byung-gu) will hold the 10th trial on charges such as violation of the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes Act (threat of retaliation) by Yang Hyun-suk.
Former CEO Yang has been accused of threatening to change his statement at the police station by trainee singer and public interest reporter Han, who accused the famous YG BI of buying drugs. In the trial on this day, a witness inquiry will be held on Mr. Choi, Mr.’s drug supplier. Han.
In the 9th trial held on the 29th of last month, as a witness for the defense attorney, a newspaper was held on Mo Geum, a travel worker, and Mo Park, who worked in YG’s HR team, which Yang Hyun produced Suk through it. the Keep6 voice group.
On 3 November, 2019, when Mr. Han met Mr. Han at random in a cafe in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Mr. Han gestured for money and said, ‘I have no feelings for Yang Hyun-suk. That’s because of the money,’ he said several times.
This was followed by the testimony of Park, who was responsible for making posters in the bathroom of photos taken in YG’s office on the same day that Han claimed to have been threatened by Yang Hyun-suk.
Prosecutors claim the photo was taken near Mapo-gu, Seoul, where YG’s headquarters are located, as a result of Han’s mobile phone forensics in August 2016. Mr Han said he could not take this poster, as raising the possibility that the timing of the photo shoot was interfered with.
In this regard, Park said that from the first half of 2014 to the second half of 2015, the poster was produced and attached to the bathroom of the YG office building as part of an internal campaign. In response to the prosecutor’s question about the possibility that the poster would still be attached to the toilet even after the campaign ended, “I don’t think it’s possible. It was a campaign of the was what the team leader thought was important at the time, so I paid special attention to it.”
On the other hand, Yang Hyun-suk is being tried on charges of appeasement, intimidation, and demanding that he reverse his statement by summoning Mr. It became known that Mr. Han made a public interest report to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission in 2019, and Yang Hyun-suk’s side denies the allegations, saying that he met Mr. Han but did not threatening him.
BI was sentenced to three years in prison and four years probation on charges of buying cannabis and LSD, a type of drug, and using some of them in September last year (violation of the Narcotics Control Act, etc.).
Han faces a third trial on drug charges. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2017 and four years probation for smoking marijuana with Big Bang’s TOP in 2016. However, he took methamphetamine again during probation, and in July the Supreme Court upheld the one-year sentence and six months in prison. The third drug administration occurred while the second trial was underway, and Han was sentenced to six months in prison in the first trial held on the 23rd.
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