SEUNGRI *TRIAL* 2021.04.16 ; AKP Analysis + (Auto) EN of S.K News Article

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"I thought it was a drinking party happening," was said of Seungri,

by the victim of the *supposed* assault by Seungri.

Victory face-to-face military tribunal

"I didn't know about the Seungri," he said. "I don't want punishment."

Article Input 2021.04.16 18:51:20 | Last Modified 2021.04.16 19:03:10

Yongin (Gyeonggi), Reporter Park Se-yeon of Business Star Today

Two victims of the (*alleged*) special assault teacher = Seungri (real name Lee Seung-hyun, 31), a former member of the group Big Bang, faced Seungri at the trial. Although the two were direct victims of the assault teacher charges that the gangsters were mobilized, one said, "I knew through a police investigation that it was a case related to Seungri," while the other said, "I do not want the punishment of Seungri."

On the 16th, the 15th trial was held at the General Military Court of the Ground Operations Command in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, on charges of arranging prostitution by Seungri, violating the Special Police Act, and special assault teacher accusations. At the trial on the day, two victims of the special assault teacher's charges attended as witnesses and were interrogated by the judge, the prosecutor, and the lawyer, taking note of the circumstances at the time of the incident.

Seungri is suspected of having been involved in a group chat room that includes Yoo In-Suk and others when he had a quarrel with a customer who opened the room while drinking with his acquaintances in a Night Club in Gangnam, Seoul on December 30, 2015, and calling in a gang member that Yoo In-Suk knew to threaten them.

In response, Seungri admitted to the allegation of a drinking party, but denied the (other) charges, saying he did not know any of the members who appeared at the scene. Seungri claimed that he was rude to a stranger at the scene and that he had no reason to continue to be at the scene, so he contacted his acquaintance and called the bodyguard and left the scene, but he was not involved in the gang.

Victim A, who attended the hearing earlier in the day, said, "I opened the door of the room where Seungri was in while trying to find an acquaintance who went with me." He made a happy expression of Seungri and said, "Why do you look up?" And he tried to discipline his young friend because he was not good at his attitude. This is the first time I have questioned a senior officer's qualifications.

"At first I didn't know (it was) Seungri because he was wearing a hat," Yun said. "Since I keep lowering my head, I lift my head and say, 'No,' 'I have to hit you,' and I only realized that it was a Seungri," he said. "I introduced myself to Seungri and his colleagues, and later I apologized, shook hands, hugged, and reconciled."

According to A, another victim, B, went into the room where Seungri was in, and when B was offended by the attitude of Seungri, he stopped B. A few minutes later, A, who had a conversation with Yoo In-Suk outside the carriage, thought the situation had ended through reconciliation, but in the meantime, B disappeared into an alley with gangsters, and he also went into an alley after being led by a gangster while talking on the phone with an acquaintance.

As a result, those who took the two people respectively were members of the gang, but A said that he found out that they were actually gangsters only during the police investigation in February last year. "On the day of the incident, I just thought (Seungri) might be friends or siblings who I know," said A. In the process of checking CCTV the next day, I thought it was a gangster by looking at other men who appeared in Seungri's room, but I found out that they were actually gangsters because the police told me that they were gangsters," he said.

When Seungri's lawyer asked, "When the men dragged the witness, there was Seungri around," A said, "I don't remember seeing it. I just thought someone would call me."

As for the statement to the effect that "Seungri called a gangster" at the time of the police investigation, he speculated that "Seungri, I, and B might have been involved in a dispute, and after the incident, the company said that they were "friends who knew Seungri." I just called it the "Seungri Party." In response to the detailed description of the gang member's appearance in the report, he said, "The police pointed out several people as gang members while watching CCTV, so 'Then this was the situation.'"

However, A said about the situation at the time, "I did not feel assaulted or threatened," and added, "I do not want the punishment of Seungri." When asked why the prosecutor did not report the assault, he said, "I did not actually get assaulted, and I did not want my job to grow as an industry worker." When the lawyer asked, "Under such circumstances, if a celebrity calls a gangster and raises a job, it is a loss," he replied, "I think so."

What drew attention was that Mr. A had worked with Seungri in business even after the incident, and said, "I apologized at the time because I was sorry." "It is true that there was personal damage because the incident was reversed at the time, but it was not due to the victory," said A. "I do not want the punishment of victory, and I told the investigative agency that so."

On the other hand, B, who appeared as a witness in the afternoon trial, said he felt relatively threatened by special assault. B said, "I went to the Pocha, the model agency where I worked at the time, and went inside the room (where Seungri was) without a hitch, and stayed at the scene with a bad mood at the attitude of the person inside. There were many people inside and outside the cart, and there were many people who did not know the same industry. While talking to someone from the outside, I was naturally led into an alley, where six to seven men surrounded me," he explained the situation at the time.

B said, "They didn't drag me, but (I was) pushed into the alley. I tried to get out, but it was a coercive atmosphere to stop me from going. Without knowing why I was led, I was accused of 'what are you?' There was no physical fight or scuffle, but the way he talked or acted was like a gangster."

However, B said that he had no idea about the relationship between the case and Seungri until he was questioned by police in February last year. Mr. B said, "I didn't know who was in the room. At that time, I wondered how important it was to them to say "Do you know who the person inside is?" but also said, "I thought it was like a drinking party and I had forgotten it for five years."

The charges of Seungri's special assault teaching were not initiated by the charges of the victims A and B, but it was confirmed that Seungri was at the center of the case. The party who had a quarrel with the victims was a victory, but the judgment on whether it was the actual "teacher" subject is unclear as of now. In response, the court will call Choi Jong-hoon and Kwon, who were present at the scene where Seungri was present, and Kang, who is known to have been on the scene after receiving a call from Seungri, as witnesses to continue the questioning.

Seungri was accused of being a key figure in the Gangnam club "Burning Sun" scandal, which erupted in February 2019, and was indicted without detention early last year after 17 police investigations. There are nine charges against Seungri, including the violation of the Act on Special Cases concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, such as prostitution, prostitution, and sexual violence, habitual gambling, violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, violation of the Food Sanitation Act, business embezzlement, violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes (embezzlement), and special assault teachers.

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