'Basketball Legend' Kang Dong-hee is sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison → 8 million won in fine 'reduced'... The second trial of embezzlement charges 'not guilty'

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Kang Dong-hee (60), a former professional basketball coach who was sentenced to one year and two months in prison in the first trial for stealing corporate funds from a basketball class, was reduced to a fine in the second trial.

According to Newsis and others on the 27th, the Incheon District Court's Criminal Appeals Department 2-1 (Chief Judge Lee Soo-hwan) reversed the court's judgment of imprisonment and fined former coach Kang Dong-hee, who was indicted without detention on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust in the job, 8 million won.

The appellate court said, "It is difficult to conclude that former director Kang and others committed acts of recording the facts of the indictment with the intention of embezzlement or illegal acquisition. "The lower court's judgment is not guilty of embezzlement because there is a mistake in misappropriation of facts and misapprehension of legal principles," he said. "The lower court's judgment of convicting the prosecution in connection with the allegation of breach of duty is justified, but it considered the fact that KRW 70 million was deposited in the second trial."

Earlier, former coach Kang Dong-hee, along with other defendants, was indicted on charges of stealing 180 million won in corporate funds in the process of running a basketball class from May to October 2018. He was also accused of damaging corporations by using basketball classroom funds for legal advice or new office contracts.

The police sent former head coach Kang Dong-hee and others to the prosecution in October 2021, and the prosecution demanded two years in prison for former head coach Kang in January last year, and 10 months to one and a half years for four other officials.

In April last year, the first trial court said, "The defendants withdrew and disposed of the victim's company funds and used them arbitrarily to deteriorate their finances in the wake of a dispute over management rights of the victim's company. Witnesses and co-defendants stated that former coach Kang Dong-hee made the overall decision," and sentenced former coach Kang Dong-hee to a year and two months in prison. The court did not make a court arrest to recover from the damage, and both Kang Dong-hee's management and the prosecution appealed after the first trial ruling.

Meanwhile, former coach Kang Dong-hee, who is also a basketball legend, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and 47 million won in 2013 for manipulating the game four times for 47 million won from brokers in 2011 when he was the head of professional basketball. After being expelled from the Korean Basketball Federation (KBL) in September 2013, he has also served as an instructor for professional sports corruption prevention education since 2016.

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