Seungri, 29, is also under an investigation for procuring prostitutes for potential investors at the club.
Police also transferred an employee of scandal-ridden nightclub Burning Sun, where Seungri was a public relations director, to prosecutors on charges of sharing Jung’s illegal videos. Investigators at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they had confirmed Jung distributed 13 illegally filmed sex videos. Jung is accused of secretly filming himself have sex with women and then sharing the footage in mobile messenger group chats that involved about 10 people, including Seungri of Big Bang and FT Island member Choi Jong-hoon, between 20. Police said they are looking into the allegations. Handcuffed and wearing a black suit, he did not answer to a barrage of questions from reporters about whether he attempted to destroy evidence or has anything to say to his victims as he was moved to a prisoner escort van.įresh allegations surfaced that he had attempted to destroy evidence by getting rid of his phone and asking others in the online chat to do the same. of Sexual Crimes, was moved from the detention room of the Jongno Police Station in downtown Seoul to the custody of prosecutors shortly before 8 a.m.
Jung, 30, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. Police on Friday referred the case of singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young to the prosecution, recommending he be indicted on charges of secretly filming sex videos and sharing them in online chat groups. – Rappler.K-pop star Jung Joon-young (R) arrives to attend a hearing on his arrest warrant at the Seoul central district court in Seoul on March 21, 2019. In the conservative South, women who appear in such videos will feel deep shame despite being the victims and face the threat of ostracism and social isolation.Īround 5,500 people were arrested for molka offences last year, 97% of them men, according to police data. Known as “molka”, spycam videos are largely made by men secretly filming women in schools, toilets and elsewhere, although the term can also be applied to clandestinely-shot footage of consensual sex. Jung rose to fame in 2014 when he came third in the audition show Super Star K and had a number of solo hits before the scandal emerged in March, when he announced his retirement. The defendants had perceived the victims only as “sexual objects” to be exploited, it added, and “a heavy punishment is inevitable given the gravity of offences”.īoth men broke down in tears when the sentences were announced. “It is hard to fathom the extent of suffering the victims must have gone through.” “Jung and Choi took part in gang rape of victims who were intoxicated and unable to resist,” the verdict said, rejecting the defendants’ claim the sex was consensual. Jung was jailed for 6 years and Choi, 29, for 5, Yonhap news agency cited the Seoul Central District Court as saying. Jung distributed his videos in mobile chatrooms with recipients including fellow K-pop star Seungri of BIGBANG, who has been accused of illegal gambling in connection with a sex and drugs scandal. It is the highest-profile example of an epidemic of spycam crimes in South Korea, which have prompted widespread anger and seen women demonstrating in Seoul, chanting: “My life is not your porn”. Separately, 30-year-old Jung was also convicted of filming himself having sex with other women without their knowledge and sharing the footage 11 times without their consent. Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were found guilty of gang-raping two different victims on two occasions in 2016. SEOUL, Korea – South Korean K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted Friday, November 29 of gang rape, as well as secretly filming and distributing illicit sex videos of his partners, and jailed for 6 years.
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