Former YG Entertainment executive producer and CEO, Yang Hyun Suk, has been charged for threatening an informant regarding former iKON member, B.I's drug case. In addition, B.I has been charged without detention on the suspicions of drug use.
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Yang Hyun Suk Charged For Threatening Informant Regarding B.I's Drug Case
According to media outlets on June 7 KST, the violent crimes unit of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office has charged Yang Hyuk Suk without detention for threatening retaliation regarding former iKON member, B.I's drug case, under the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Crimes (retaliation and intimidation) back in May 28, 2021.
In June 2019, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission had filed a public interest report claiming that Yang Hyun Suk has conciliated, intimidated, and demanded Han Seo Hee, a former idol trainee and the informant, to retract their statement in order to dispel the drug allegations brought against B.I, who is under investigation on the suspicion of drug use back in 2016.
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Han Seo Hee later retracted her statements, and B.I was initially acquitted of his drug charges at the time. However, Han Seo Hee had claimed that the investigation on B.I was covered up due to YG Entertainment's connections with the police, and that Yang Hyun Suk was behind it.
In addition, Yang Hyun Suk had admitted to calling Han Seo Hee to his office in YG Entertainment to have a conversation, but denied the allegation of threatening the former trainee to retract her statement. Through several cross-examinations, however, Yang Hyuk Suk's charges were brought by the police through indirect evidences, such as statements from Han Seo Hee, reporters, and statements of those involved with Han Seo Hee and B.I.
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Yang Hyun Suk has also been accused of asking Han Seo Hee's agency to ask the latter to go abroad in 2016. However, the representative of the agency who had instructed Han Seo Hee to leave the country was found to be on the run from authorities.
Han Seo Hee had become infamous for being arrested on the charges of smoking marijuana with BIGBANG's T.O.P back in August 2016. She later testified to the police during the investigation that B.I had purchased and used marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in the same year.
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B.I was charged without detention and handed over to trial on the charges of violating the Act on the Control of Narcotics, back in May 28, 2021 as well. In February 2020, after it was reported that the former iKON leader had purchased and used marijuana and LSD - to which is later admitted to some of the suspicions - B.I went to take a drug test and tested negative.
Yang Hyun Suk's first trial will be held on June 25, while B.I's first trial will be held on July 9.
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Written by Robyn Joan
