"'Tzuyang's intimidating YouTubers set up a meeting'Organized'Mom..four prosecutions
Aug 14, 2024
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On the 14th, the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office's Criminal Department 2 (Chief Prosecutor Jeong Hyun-seung) and Criminal Department 5 (Chief Prosecutor Cheon Dae-won) arrested and indicted two YouTubers, including foot-and-mouth disease (real name Lee Joon-hee) and Jujak judge (real name Kukjejin).
In addition, Caracula (real name Lee Se-wook) was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting racketeering crimes such as foot-and-mouth disease, and Crocodile (real name Choi Il-hwan) was indicted without detention.
According to the prosecution's investigation, they formed the 「Korea Online Traction Mutual Aid Association」 to regularly strengthen solidarity and search for targets for crimes, and exchanged related information in real time through messenger group chat rooms.
The prosecution considered that they conspired systematically and systematically in that they even exchanged opinions that it is beneficial to receive money through personal contact rather than being sanctioned by YouTube headquarters or socially criticized for cyberbullying (bullying online) with reports related to Tzuyang.
In fact, according to the contents of the group chat room and phone call released by the prosecution, the investigation found that foot-and-mouth disease shared related information in the group room as soon as it received a report on Tzuyang.
They exchanged advice, encouraging the crime, saying "How much money do you make if you upload a video of Tzuyang and the number of views is " or "For now, it's better to make a rough video and send it to Tzuyang"
Also "Please insert my younger brother so that I can get some money. Don't eat alone. You should get 200 million won", It turned out that specific conversations were also exchanged over the amount of extortion, such as "Just get about 3,000 (KRW 10,000)."
In addition to the four YouTubers indicted on the same day, there are also other participants in the group room. However, the prosecution believes that he was not involved in the Tzuyang blackmail case.
A prosecution official said, `They put forward the 'realization of justice through social accusations and public discussion' on the surface, but instead of dealing with the social power, most of them focused on dealing with powerless individuals or vulnerable celebrities"In particular, foot-and-mouth disease and others were controversial even though they extorted a large amount of money from Tzuyang, so they wrapped it up as if they were 'black knights' who worked to protect the victims", he explained.
Then "YouTuber is being exploited as a hotbed for a new type of looting crime that uses the weakness of others as a profit model."It is necessary to strengthen institutional sanctions through legal amendments and to strictly respond to malicious content production and distribution activities by investigative agencies."
Meanwhile, the foot-and-mouth disease and the main inspector were indicted on charges of extorting 55 million won from Tzuyang in February last year under the pretext of her past relationship with Tzuyang and her ex-boyfriend. Caracula and Crocodile are accused of encouraging foot-and-mouth disease to racketeer to the effect that it is beneficial to rake out money directly rather than post a video of the Tzuyang exposure.
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