Eight people involved in the "Oh Jae-won's proxy prescription", 80 hours of community service sanctions"Admitting pressure and considering embroidery"

Nov 05, 2024

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Eight players who prescribed proxy prescriptions under Oh Jae-won's coercion were sanctioned.

KBO held a reward and punishment committee in the KBO conference room on the 4th and deliberated on eight Lee Seung-jin, Jang Seung-hyun, and Je Hwan-yu, who won Doosan Kim Min-hyuk, Kim In-tae, Park Gye-beom, Park Ji-hoon.

The eight players referred to the reward and punishment committee were prescribed and delivered psychotropic drugs by proxy at the hospital under the pressure of Oh Jae-won, who was a senior member of his team.

The KBO Reward and Punishment Committee decided to sanction all eight players for 80 hours of community service based on Article 151 of the KBO Covenant 'Dignity Damage Act'.

The reward and punishment committee decided to impose such sanctions in consideration of the fact that it was difficult for the players to reject the demands of coercion and intimidation by senior players, that they could not play most of the season due to the club's action, and that they admitted their mistakes and turned themselves in" he said.

KBO said "We will continue to provide thorough training on drug prescriptions for all players in the league and strengthen the club's management of player prescriptions to prevent recurrence."

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Meanwhile, Oh Jae-won is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in the first trial in July on separate charges of administering methamphetamine 11 times in a year from November 2022 and forcing fellow players to take surrogate prescriptions for zolpidem-based sleeping pills. Both Oh Jae-won and the prosecution have appealed and are facing a second trial. On the 15th, the prosecution made 2,365 tablets of steelnox and Xanax, medical drugs, prescribed through acquaintances such as junior baseball players, and charged them with minor charges.

In addition, on the 24th of last month, he was sentenced to four months in prison and two years of probation on charges of entertainment under the Narcotics Control Act for receiving 0.2 grams of methamphetamine from an acquaintance in November last year.

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