{"id":76254,"date":"2023-03-27T15:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76254"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:21:12","slug":"former-coinone-employee-arrested-in-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-coinone-employee-arrested-in-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Coinone employee arrested in bribery case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone has been arrested on bribery charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mt.co.kr\/mtview.php?no=2023032209150666363\">local media<\/a>, citing the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors\u2019 Office, report this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, the suspect, surnamed Chon, is believed to have received 1.9 billion won (about $1.47 million) in 2020 from an unnamed broker for listing his token on Coinone.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors declined to reveal Chon&#8217;s full name, citing privacy rules. They also clarified that they are investigating the case on similar charges against Bithumb CEO Lee Sang-jun. The police have not yet issued an arrest warrant for him.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation could extend to other local crypto exchanges. According to media reports, Upbit, Korbit, and Gopax are involved, also suspected of illegally listing digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, South Korean authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-arrest-of-bithumb-owner\">arrested the owner of Bithumb<\/a> Kana Jona Hen, suspected of embezzlement and manipulating the share price of several affiliated firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone has been arrested on bribery charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2168,1323,1286,974],"class_list":["post-76254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinone","tag-investigations","tag-listing","tag-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76256,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254\/revisions\/76256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}