A Seoul court has found Jung Ilhoon, 26, a former member of K-pop boy band BTOB, guilty of habitual marijuana use and sentenced him to two years in prison and imposed a fine of 133 million (about $117,400).
On June 10, the Seoul Central District Court handed down the verdict against Ilhoon and seven other accomplices. After the hearing, Ilhoon was arrested in court.
Ilhoon was found guilty of violating South Korea’s Narcotics Control Act for marijuana use. He and seven others were charged with buying and smoking 826 grams of marijuana for two and a half years between July 5, 2016 and Jan. 9, 2019.
They spent 130 million won (about $116,420) for the illegal drugs, remitting the money 161 times to a drug dealer.
According to Korean media, the court pointed out that “the defendants used sophisticated criminal techniques such as communicating with each other on the dark web to make it difficult to detect crimes, and trading using bitcoin, a virtual currency, as payment.”
The court added that Ilhoon and his accomplice, surnamed Park, “played a leading role and committed the most number of crimes.”
The seven accomplices were sentenced to one year and six months to two years in prison or one year in prison with three years of probation depending on the number of purchases and inhalation of…
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A Seoul court has found Jung Ilhoon, 26, a former member of K-pop boy band BTOB, guilty of habitual marijuana use and sentenced him to two years in prison and imposed a fine of 133 million (about $117,400).
On June 10, the Seoul Central District Court handed down the verdict against Ilhoon and seven other accomplices. After the hearing, Ilhoon was arrested in court.
Ilhoon was found guilty of violating South Korea’s Narcotics Control Act for marijuana use. He and seven others were charged with buying and smoking 826 grams of marijuana for two and a half years between July 5, 2016 and Jan. 9, 2019.
They spent 130 million won (about $116,420) for the illegal drugs, remitting the money 161 times to a drug dealer.
According to Korean media, the court pointed out that “the defendants used sophisticated criminal techniques such as communicating with each other on the dark web to make it difficult to detect crimes, and trading using bitcoin, a virtual currency, as payment.”
The court added that Ilhoon and his accomplice, surnamed Park, “played a leading role and committed the most number of crimes.”
The seven accomplices were sentenced to one year and six months to two years in prison or one year in prison with three years of probation depending on the number of purchases and inhalation of…
