Lee Da In’s family’s scandal is still highly discussed, even after Lee Seung Gi’s statement
Netizens criticize Lee Seung Gi’s explanation of his in-laws’ scandal, as there is still a pending court trial for such incident.
According to Tenasia on April 14th, Kyeon Mi Ri’s husband, Lee Hong Heon, who was indicted on charges of violating the Capital Markets and Financial Investment Services Act, is still waiting for the final ruling from the Supreme Court as they have been discussing the third appeal trial for more than two years. Therefore, Lee Seung Gi’s claim of his father-in-law’s innocence is considered a hasty and inappropriate statement.
Lee Seung Gi’s father-in-law, Mr. Lee, was arrested by the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on charges of the Financial Investment Services Act in August 2016, as he inflated the stock price of KOSDAQ-listed company B and earned 2.3 billion won in profits. At the time, his wife Kyeon Mi Ri was also summoned for the investigation as a witness, causing her two daughters Lee Yoo Bi and Lee Da In to be suspected of having connections to the case.
In November 2018, the court sentenced Mr. Lee to 4 years in prison and fined him 2.5 billion won in the first trial. However, in August 2019, the appeal court overturned the first trial’s ruling and acquitted Lee, stating that he did not disclose any serious false information that could be considered a violation of regulations in the process of raising funds for a paid-in capital increase.
The last appeal was filed in September 2019 and is currently under discussion at the Supreme Court.
After his wedding, Lee Seung Gi personally clarified rumors and stock price manipulation allegations surrounding his wife’s family. He stated, “The claim that they (Lee Da In’s family) embezzled 26 billion won through stock manipulation and made 300,000 victims suffer is obviously false information”.
In addition to the case that has not yet been finalized by the Supreme Court, it is true that Lee was also sentenced to six years in prison in 2010 for embezzling 14.1 billion won. At the time, he raised 26.6 billion won by disclosing beneficial information about Corebit, a company that planned a paid-in capital increase with investment from Hong Kong investors in 2009. However, he was acquitted in the appeal trial the following year.
The reason Kyeon Mi Ri, Lee Yoo Bi, and Lee Da In were called out in online posts claiming “their involvement in a 26 billion won stock price manipulation” was also because of such an incident. However, since the case was acquitted, Lee Seung Gi confidently made his claim of misinformation.
In this regard, Kyeon Mi Ri’s agency expressed their position in February shear of Lee Seung Gi and Lee Da In’s wedding. They said, “The report that Kyeon Mi Ri’s husband embezzled 26.6 billion won from Corebit’s stock issuance to pay off individual debts is not true. Kyeon Mi Ri’s husband did borrow 500 million won, but he already repaid it a few months later, and he did not accumulate wealth by taking money from Corebit. We will not tolerate false claims regarding this any longer, for the sake of Kyeon Mi Ri’s family and their new family member. We will correct any claims that are different from the facts until the end with strict responses.”
In other words, netizens pointed out that Lee Seung Gi made such a hasty remark because there is still another case, where the final verdict has not yet been released.
Source: Wikitree
