Seoul High Court cuts Kim Keon Hee sentence to five years

  • Seoul High Court cut Kim Keon Hee’s prison sentence from seven years to five.
  • The court acquitted Kim over a 39.9 million-won watch and a Sehando replica.
  • Kim’s lawyers and the special counsel said they will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Former first lady Kim Keon Hee’s prison term was reduced to five years from seven after the Seoul High Court acquitted her on charges involving a Vacheron Constantin watch and a replica of Sehando. The court upheld convictions over gifts that it found were tied to requests for influence, including jewelry worth 103.8 million won from Seohee Construction Chairman Lee Bong-kwan, a gold turtle figurine, a Dior bag and other items, and a Lee Ufan painting. It ordered confiscation of the painting, gold turtle and Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace, as well as forfeiture of 24.4 million won. Kim’s lawyers and the special counsel both said they would appeal to the Supreme Court. The ruling follows a separate four-year sentence that Kim appealed over gifts from the Unification Church and stock-price manipulation.

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