Lawyer pocketed police officer clients’ cash — and used it to buy crypto – DL News
- South Korean lawyer stole police officers’ settlement fees in 2021.
- Court fines lawyer $7,000 amid previous “leniency” complaints.
- Judge calls theft “a heinous crime.”
A South Korean lawyer embezzled over $4,000 from his police officer clients and used the funds to make private crypto investments.
A district court in the city of Cheongju found the lawyer, unnamed for legal reasons, guilty of misappropriating funds handed over as part of a settlement deal, the South Korean newspaper Joongbu Maeil reported. The court did not disclose which cryptocurrencies were involved.
“This is a heinous crime that involved neglecting professional ethics,” Presiding Judge Ji Yun-seop told the court in sentencing. However, despite the court’s…
