Oh Jae-won's sentence increased in the appeal trial "One year and nine months in prison."

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Oh Jae-won (41), a former member of the national baseball team who was additionally charged with threatening his junior and receiving drugs on behalf of him, was also sentenced to prison in the appeal trial.

According to News 1 on the 9th, the Seoul Central District Court's Criminal Appeals Department 9-3 (Chief Judge Jeong Hye-won, Choi Bo-won, Hwang Bo-seung-hyuk) sentenced Oh Jae-won, who is suspected of violating the Narcotics Control Act, to one year and nine months in prison, took 40 hours of drug recidivism prevention education, and ordered an additional 25.91 million won. The sentence was more than the one-and-a-half years in prison in the first trial.

The justice department said, "It does not appear to have been prosecuted for the same case, and the quality of the crime is not good because the juniors are prescribed on behalf of them. He explained, "The crime is not good and the amount and duration of the medication are long," but "We considered the fact that the defendant admitted his wrongdoing and that the final ruling was sentenced at the same time."

Oh Jae-won is accused of receiving 2,365 tablets of steelnox and Xanax, medical drugs, from 14 people, including baseball players, over 86 times from May 2021 to March 2024. In the process, some juniors were found to have cursed and threatened. The prosecution indicted Oh Jae-won without detention, believing that Oh Jae-won requested a sleeping pill prescription from a junior in his early and mid-20s or a player in the first and second groups.

Earlier, the first trial said, "I used my status as a famous baseball player to get a drug prescription from a junior who was difficult to refuse a request and then accepted it. He ordered Oh Jae-won to be sentenced to one and a half years in prison and 23.65 million won in additional charges, saying, "There are many cases where I have continued to commit crimes for more than three years." Since then, the sentence has increased more than the first trial in the appeal trial.

Meanwhile, Oh Jae-won was arrested and charged with taking methamphetamine 11 times in a year from November 2022 and receiving psychotropic drugs from an acquaintance, and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in December 2024. In addition, he was additionally charged with receiving about 0.2 grams of methamphetamine from an acquaintance in November 2023 and sentenced to four months in prison and two years of probation. In addition, he was indicted three times on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act, including the drug proxy prescription, which was the result of the appeal trial.

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