'Kim Soo-hyun defamation arrest': Kim Se-je's Apgujeong apartment auction... creditors total 8 billion won

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Auction proceedings have begun for a Seoul Apgujeong Hanyang Apartment unit, in which Kim Se-je, the CEO of Horizontal and Vertical Research Institute, holds a 50% stake, following her arrest and indictment on charges including defamation against actor Kim Soo-hyun.

The Seoul Central District Court decided last month to initiate auction proceedings for real estate registered under Kim Se-ui (CEO)'s name.

The property, accepted on the 14th, is a single unit in Hanyang Apartments in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam-gu. The proceedings were initiated at the request of lawyer Kim So-yeon, who claimed she did not receive approximately 120 million won in attorney fees and other costs from Kim Se-ui (CEO).

Lawyer Kim So-yeon had previously applied for compulsory enforcement based on a payment order issued by the Daejeon District Court. However, the land registry shows that senior creditors are registered first, including total bank mortgages of approximately 3.6 billion won, a provisional seizure of Kim Se-je's stake worth 2 billion won set by Kim Soo-hyun's agency Gold Medalist, and a tax lien for unpaid national taxes of about 2.3 billion won from the Gangnam Tax Office. The total amount of claims reaches approximately 8.07 billion won.

Earlier, on the 10th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office Crime Proceeds Recovery Division completed registration to secure recovery of illicit gains against land owned by Kim Se-je.

Securing illicit gains is a measure taken before a judgment becomes final to temporarily freeze assets so that suspects of crimes cannot hide or dispose of profits obtained through illegal acts. The amount is reported to be 169.4 million won in total. The Prosecutors' Office determined that Kim Se-je earned at least 54.4 million won from sponsorship funds and at least 115 million won from advertising.

The Prosecutors' Office explained, "During the police investigation, securing illicit gains was applied only for criminal proceeds of about 5 million won; however, the Crime Proceeds Recovery Division conducted tracing of all sponsorship fund accounts of companies operated by Kim Se-je, investigated key witnesses among company officials, and performed asset searches."

Kim Se-je faces charges of spreading false information via YouTube and other platforms claiming that Kim Soo-hyun dated actress Kim Sae-ron while she was a minor and that the direct cause of Kim Sae-ron's death was debt repayment pressure from Kim Soo-hyun's side. In this regard, she has been arrested and indicted for defamation under the Information and Communication Network Act, violation of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act, and violation of the Stalking Punishment Act. The Prosecutors' Office believes that Kim Se-je arbitrarily edited materials, distorted content, and used false data without even minimal fact-checking.

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