President Lee Won-seok: "Seize Cyber Rekka Crime Profits"…Ordered Suwon District Prosecutor

Kim Yu-cheol, Head of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, Reports Investigation Status and Plans to Chief Lee Today
'Strict Response Including Arrest Investigation' Reiterated

Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok instructed Kim Yoo-cheol, head of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, who is leading the investigation into the cyber recka extortion and threat case involving mukbang YouTuber Jjuyang (real name Park Jung-won), to "seize the criminal proceeds of cyber recka."

On the 29th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that Prosecutor General Lee received a report on the investigation status and plans related to cyber recka from Kim Yoo-cheol at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and gave such instructions.

Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok. Photo by Jo Yong-jun jun21@

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office stated that Prosecutor General Lee instructed Prosecutor Kim to "strictly respond to the malicious content distribution, threats, and extortion crimes of cyber recka, which generate profits and promote hatred indiscriminately causing severe defamation and insults to celebrities and ordinary people alike, and to seize the criminal proceeds."

Earlier, on the 15th, Prosecutor General Lee ordered a strict response, including conducting a consolidated investigation into multiple offenses by the same individual related to cyber recka's defamation, insult, threats, and extortion crimes, and detaining suspects in cases involving ▲ prior similar offenses or continuous/repetitive crimes ▲ planned offenses such as posting false videos for profit generation ▲ malicious crimes such as threats and extortion exploiting weaknesses.

The day after Prosecutor General Lee gave these instructions, the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office swiftly consolidated cases transferred from several prosecutors' offices and, within 10 days of starting the investigation, on the 26th, arrested YouTubers Gu Jae-yeok (real name Lee Joon-hee) and Jujak Gambalsa (real name Jeon Guk-jin), who are accused of extorting 55 million won from Jjuyang on the condition of not exposing past matters between Jjuyang and her ex-boyfriend.

Son Cheol, the presiding judge for warrants at the Suwon District Court, who conducted the detention hearing for the two, issued detention warrants on charges of extortion, threats, and coercion, stating, "The charges are serious, and there is a concern of secondary harm to the victim."

The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office plans to continue investigating other involved parties besides the two who were detained.

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