US EditionSouth Korea jails 90-year-old woman for laundering son's drug money
The court said she knowingly moved drug proceeds and ordered forfeiture of 386 million won after nine transfers over nearly two years.
- On Monday, an Incheon District Court sentenced a 90-year-old woman to one year in prison for laundering 386 million won in proceeds from her son's drug trafficking operations.
- Her son, identified as Song, has been imprisoned in Cambodia since 2020 for trafficking methamphetamine and continued coordinating nine illicit shipments from prison between 2020 and 2022.
- Judge Wi Eun-suk rejected her ignorance claims, noting she visited Cambodia five times in 2019 and stating, "The defendant accepted illegal proceeds while being aware of circumstances indicating their connection to drug-related offenses."
- The court ordered forfeiture of the 386 million won, though the one-year prison term reflected mitigating factors including her advanced age and lack of prior drug-related convictions.
- South Korean authorities are currently seeking Song's extradition from Cambodia, while his daughter was separately acquitted of similar charges due to insufficient evidence she knew the funds were tied to trafficking.
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South Korea Jails Mom, 90, for Laundering Son's Drug Profits
A South Korean court has handed a 90-year-old woman a one-year prison term for helping her son move suspected drug money, a case that has drawn attention for the defendant's age as well as the crime, reports the BBC . The woman, whose name was not released, was found to have...
A nonagenaire has been sentenced to one year in prison in South Korea for helping her son launder money from drug trafficking. The woman received a total of 386 million won (222,157 euros) nine times between April 2020 and February 2022, money that she transferred to a designated account. This has been reported by a court in Incheon and collected by the British television station BBC, which details that the son of the woman, known as Song, has b…
An Incheon court sentenced a woman in her 90s to one year in prison after finding clear evidence that she helped launder money from drug trafficking for her son, the head of an international drug trafficking ring who is imprisoned in Cambodia.
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