SEOUL – Seungri, a former member of K-pop boy band BigBang, was released from Yeoju Prison in South Korea’s Gyeonggi province on Thursday after completing his 18-month sentence, according to the country’s Ministry of Justice. Seungri, whose real name is Lee...
SEOUL – Seungri, a former member of K-pop boy band BigBang, was released from Yeoju Prison in South Korea’s Gyeonggi province on Thursday after completing his 18-month sentence, according to the country’s Ministry of Justice.
Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, was indicted in January 2020 over his involvement in the Burning Sun scandal, a far-reaching sex and drug scandal, since 2018. The 32-year-old singer began his military service during the trial and was sentenced to three years in prison in a military court in August 2021. The punishment was mitigated to 18 months in the higher court and the term was finalised in the Supreme Court in May 2022.
Seungri was convicted on nine charges, including arranging sex trafficking for foreign investors in 2015 and misappropriating funds from Burning Sun, a nightclub in Gangnam to which he was affiliated. The court also found him guilty of eight accounts of illicit gambling involving some 2.2 billion won between 2013 and 2017.
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