A senior South Korean police officer in his 40s has been sentenced to six years in prison for taking approximately $90,000 in bribes from suspects linked to gambling and crypto investment fraud.

The Uijeongbu District Court’s Goyang branch said the man “greatly damaged the fairness and integrity of public office and social trust,” Chosun Ilbo reported.

He was convicted of aggravated bribery, solicitation of bribes and fraud for taking about $38,000 in cash and roughly $53,000 in entertainment expenses between December 2023 and March 2024…