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Posted by Susan-Han Thursday, September 30, 2021

Seungri may not be released from military detention center until the completion of his appeal trial

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Former Big Bang member Seungri, who was originally scheduled to be relieved from his mandatory military service back on September 16, is now being held at the ROK army's military detention center after both his and the prosecution's side chose to appeal the court's initial ruling of his case. 

Previously, Seungri enlisted as an active duty soldier in March of 2020. This meant that Seungri was due to be discharged from his service duties on September 16. 

However, soon after his enlistment, the military court began the formal trial process for 9 criminal charges against the former singer, including embezzlement, violation of food sanitation laws, habitual illegal gambling, illegal monetary transfer, solicitation of illegal prostitution, etc. 

On August 12, 2021, the military court concluded that Seungri was guilty of the majority of charges raised against him, and sentenced him to 3 years of prison, a fine of 1.15 billion KRW (~ $989,000 USD), and the registration of his personal information on the national sexual crime offender list. 

Immediately after the court ruling, Seungri was put into custody with the 55th division of the ROK military's police sector. Approximately a week after his court ruling, Seungri's legal representative formally appealed the case. The prosecution has also filed to appeal the case, and the appeal trial will be handed over to the the military appeal court for review. Following the appeals, Seungri was transferred from the military police sector to the army's detention facility, where he is being held now. 

A case can be appealed in military court up to two times before it is passed on to South Korea's Supreme Court. Currently, Seungri's discharge from mandatory service has been "deferred" while the military appeal court is reviewing his case. Thus far, it seems likely that the former singer may be kept in detention without being discharged until his case fully comes to a close. 

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This is how they treated Seungri during police investigation, they accused him of drugs usage, one of them said to him that he works with drugs addicts and he recognizes them easily and that Seungri has that face so to confess and not waste their time. He said that he doesn't even smoke so he has nothing to confess then they showed him pictures of some celebrities and asked him to tell them which are consuming drugs. They took hair from his body for testing in plain public. He was tested three times and the results were negative.

SR was the first private person from SK to be investigated by the national tax service for the last ten years and they found nothing more than what was already known about the Monk Museum being registered as restaurant and bcs there was a dance floor, they was obliged by the law to register it as a club and at that time they paid a fine. Now they found Seungri guilty of the violation of Food sanitation though back then MM's manager declared in court that was his decision to do that and when SR learned about it, he said them to change the registration and pay the fine right away. Every charge was debunked by the witnesses or by Seungri's defense but all the evidences provided by them during months of auditioning were disregarded by the judge. During the trial the military prosecution repeated the same questions many times and many of then not related with the case such as about concerts, tours, Big Bang members and how much money they earned so the lawyer had to stand up and the judge to ask them to resume to the case, also they pressured SR to confess guilty in court but he didn't. When the prosecution's witnesses declared in court under oath that they were coerced by police to declare against Seungri during investigation and that their declarations aren't reflected correct in police's reports which contain things that they never said, the judge agreed to research what happened bcs there shouldn't be discrepancies but in the sentencing day after he dismissed all those declarations given in court as unreliable, he quoted from police's reports which were debunked by witnesses during the auditioning to motivate the sentence he gave, as if the reports were undoubtedly true. So from September 2020 to July 2021 they were playing prosecutors and judge as the juridical procedures required but at the end they gave the sentence that was ordered from start by their superiors, guilty from all charges with aggravated punishment and 1M$ as fine, all based solely on prosecution's evidences bcs he is a celebrity and he dared to defy them holding into his innocence.

Remember that in March 2019 the president moon personally asked police and prosecution to not spare any effort in investigating those three cases which at that time were under public scrutiny 1. the suicide case of the late actress Jang Ja Yeon, 2. the case of former Vice-minister of Ministry of Justice Kim Hak Eui from former president Park's administration, who allegedly participated in a sex orgy, and 3. the club Burning Sun's case, here is the link of soompi article about president moon's intervention https://www.soompi.com/article...
What happened with those three cases? Nothing memorable, they were soon closed without great results/conclusions, the Burning Sun club was closed in Feb 2019 and bulldozed but then reopened in another location in April 2019 and was functioning legally but nobody was interested to learn who gave them all the administrative approbations and papers while the police investigation about the club was still ongoing bcs they had the perfect scapegoat to focus the public opinion's attention on him as if Seungri was the pivotal figure in BS gate as media depicted him. All the investigative organizations of the SK concentrated their efforts in investigating Seungri, including the national tax service as president moon asked, but the results didn't come out and Seungri didn't admit what they wanted him to admit, the arrest warrant was dismissed two times bcs of lack of strict evidences and the prosecution couldn't bring the case in court in 2019, in other words they failed in front of president/politicians and public. In order to keep their jobs they asked help from their military peers (not forget that minister of defense, minister of justice and minister of national security are political positions and those who occupy them are colleagues of the same democratic party that rules nowadays SK so for them to make an agreement to save their faces before the president and public isn't something impossible, on the contrary) and orchestrated the military trial which eventually gave them the results everybody expected from the beginning and so the injustice was served once again.

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