Lee Jeong-hoon, the former chairman of South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, was previously accused of participating in a 110 billion won fraud case and was found not guilty in the second trial. (EToday)
It was reported in January 2023 that the criminal court of the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea acquitted the defendant Lee Jung-hoon, the former chairman of Bithumb, in the first instance of a suspected fraud case. Previously, South Korean prosecutors had asked the court to sentence Li Zhengxun to eight years in prison.
It is reported that in October 2018, during the process of negotiating the sale of Bithumb shares between Lee Jung-hoon and BK Group Chairman Kim Byung-jian, Kim Byung-jian used part of the proceeds from the BXA pre-sale to buy BXA (Bithumb token) after hearing that Lee Jung-hoon would list it on Bithumb. Bithumb’s shares, but BXA has not been listed on Bithumb, and BK Group’s acquisition of Bithumb has not yet come to an end.