Appeal Filed on the 5th
Jeon Cheong-jo (28), who was charged with fraud and child abuse after committing an investment scam worth tens of billions of won by impersonating a third-generation chaebol heir, appealed the first trial verdict that sentenced him to imprisonment.
According to the legal community on the 10th, Jeon submitted an appeal to the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 5th.
On November 10th last year, Jeon Cheong-jo appeared at the Songpa Police Station in Seoul and was transferred to the Eastern District Prosecutors' Office. [Image source=Yonhap News]
Earlier, on the 4th, Judge Lee Ho-dong of the Criminal Division 3 at the Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced Jeon to four years in prison and ordered him to complete 40 hours of a child abuse crime prevention program.
Jeon was indicted in May on charges of assaulting A, a middle school nephew of Nam Hyun-hee (42), a former national fencing athlete, by hitting him 16 times with the handle of a children's golf club. He was also charged with intimidation for sending messages threatening to "send bodyguards to the school to deal with it" because A asked Nam for pocket money.
In addition, Jeon is accused of defrauding three people of 125 million won under the pretext of unlisted stock investment funds and extorting 233 million won from four men he met on a dating app by pretending to be a female equestrian athlete.
At the time, the judge explained the sentencing reasons, saying, "The defendant assaulted a young child with a golf club under the pretext of discipline and threatened him not to report to investigative agencies, which is a very serious offense. Also, the defendant is a repeat offender of similar crimes who deceived victims by pretending to be a wealthy person and acted as if he was in a relationship with them. The victims suffered double damage by borrowing money as well as losing their own funds."
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