[Breaking] Supreme Court Finalizes 7 Years and 8 Months Prison Sentence for Lee Hwayoung in 'Ssangbangwool North Korea Remittance' Case
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Lee Hwa-young, former Vice Governor for Peace of Gyeonggi Province, who was tried on charges of receiving bribes worth hundreds of millions of won from the Ssangbangwool Group and conspiring to transfer $8 million to North Korea, has been sentenced to a total of 7 years and 8 months in prison, with the sentence now finalized.
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