The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ruling that fined Shin Sang-hoon, former president of Shinhan Financial Group, 20 million won ($17,300) for embezzlement.
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Shin Sang-hoon (Yonhap file photo) |
The 69-year-old Shin was indicted in 2010 on charges of embezzling 1.56 billion won in consultancy fees between 2005 and 2009, inflicting a loss of 43.8 billion won on the company through the provision of illegal loans between 2006 and 2007 and pocketing 860 million won in bribes from three Korean-Japanese shareholders from 2008 to 2010.
A Seoul district court gave Shin a prison term of 18 months, suspended for two years, after finding him guilty of embezzlement and bribery.
But an appellate court commuted his sentence to a fine of 20 million won, saying Shin was not guilty of breach of trust and bribery. The Supreme Court endorsed the high court decision. (Yonhap)
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