On the 22nd, the Seoul Seongbuk Police Station announced that it has begun investigating Lee Jong-myeong, former CEO of Blockberry Creative (Blockberry), and his wife, Kim Sun-hye, CEO of Libbit United (Libbit), the parent company of Blockberry, who were recently indicted on charges of fraud, breach of trust, evasion of enforcement, and violation of the Act on the Regulation of Concealment of Criminal Proceeds.
They are accused of signing a video production-related contract with video producer A, who had an office in the building where Blockberry was a tenant, in September of last year, and not paying a portion of the service fee to this day. At that time, Mr. Lee offered Mr. A a contract worth 110 million won to produce a music video for the girl group 'Genius', which was scheduled to debut under Blockberry.