2023-09-26 01:23:00
YouTuber Kim Yong-ho <사진=연합뉴스>
The police have applied for an arrest warrant for YouTuber Kim Yong-ho on charges of extorting money from celebrities in exchange for not exposing their weaknesses.
According to the legal community on the 26th, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Violent Crime Investigation Unit recently applied to the prosecution for an arrest warrant for Mr. Kim on charges of blackmail.
Since August 2020, Mr. Kim is accused of receiving financial compensation by threatening to reveal negative content to multiple celebrities on his YouTube channel and then covering it up.
The amount of money Mr. Kim collected from the victims was found to be hundreds of millions of won.
The police searched and seized Kim’s home and office in October last year and secured data related to the case. They were also summoned and investigated twice in June and July.
Mr. Kim is a former sports world reporter and also appeared on the YouTube channel ‘Garo Vertical Research Institute’. He also ran the YouTube channel ‘Kim Yong-ho Entertainment Manager’.
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