Summary
A 90-year-old South Korean woman has been sentenced to one year in jail for laundering money earned from her son's drug trafficking activities. Her son, who is currently imprisoned in Cambodia for smuggling methamphetamine, had directed her to transfer a total of 386 million won. The court took her age and lack of past drug convictions into consideration when determining the sentence.
Key Facts
- The elderly woman laundered over 350 million won of her son's drug money.
- She was sentenced to one year in jail by an Incheon court.
- Her actions included transferring money to an account as instructed by her son.
- Her son has been in prison in Cambodia since 2020 for drug trafficking.
- The court considered her advanced age and clean past drug-related record in sentencing.
- South Korea is working on bringing her son back from Cambodia.
- Her granddaughter was tried but acquitted due to lack of evidence of her knowing about the drug origin of the funds.
