

Police booked him on an additional charge on Thursday for sharing a nude photo of women in messenger app chat rooms. Seungri, 29, is also under an investigation for procuring prostitutes for potential investors at the club. Police also transferred an employee of scandal-ridden nightclub Burning Sun, where Seungri was a public relations director, to prosecutors on charges of sharing Jung’s illegal videos. Investigators at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they had confirmed Jung distributed 13 illegally filmed sex videos. Jung is accused of secretly filming himself have sex with women and then sharing the footage in mobile messenger group chats that involved about 10 people, including Seungri of Big Bang and FT Island member Choi Jong-hoon, between 20. Police said they are looking into the allegations. Handcuffed and wearing a black suit, he did not answer to a barrage of questions from reporters about whether he attempted to destroy evidence or has anything to say to his victims as he was moved to a prisoner escort van.įresh allegations surfaced that he had attempted to destroy evidence by getting rid of his phone and asking others in the online chat to do the same. of Sexual Crimes, was moved from the detention room of the Jongno Police Station in downtown Seoul to the custody of prosecutors shortly before 8 a.m. Jung, 30, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. Police on Friday referred the case of singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young to the prosecution, recommending he be indicted on charges of secretly filming sex videos and sharing them in online chat groups. 6.K-pop star Jung Joon-young (R) arrives to attend a hearing on his arrest warrant at the Seoul central district court in Seoul on March 21, 2019. 20 and, then Tokyo Dome, and ends in Nagoya Dome on Apr. The band's Japan concert, "TWICE DOME TOUR 2019 '#Dreamday'," hits Kyocera Dome Osaka on Mar. JYP Entertainment, the band's agency, released a statement last week that said it had handed the names of rumormongers who linked its "female artist" to Jung to prosecutors on Mar.

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency subpoenaed Jung twice and on Monday issued an arrest warrant for violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, ETC. All the women denied their involvement in the scandal, which erupted early last week. Jihyo is one of the female celebrities rumored to have appeared in sex videos that Jung filmed without his lovers' consent and then distributed in an online chatroom in 2015. The 3:30-minute airport scene was captured and posted on YouTube the same day. With eight other members, she was heading to a gate for a flight for Tokyo, where the band begins a Japan concert tour.Ī video shows her holding hands with co-member Jeongyeon. The K-pop girl band star kept her face down trying to hide the tears amid a crowd mixed with an army of bodyguards, journalists and photographers. TWICE leader Jihyo, one of the much-mentioned Korean celebrities rumored victims of the Jung Joon-young sex video scandal, was seen crying at Gimpo International Airport on Monday. Jihyo, center, is seen heading toward a departure gate at Gimpo International Airport, Mar.
