On the 5th, The Fact reported that actor Jang Geun-suk’s mother, Jeon, filed an appeal against the ruling the day after the sentence of the first trial (January 19), but dropped the appeal on the 26th of last month, a week later. The prosecution also did not appeal and the first trial decision was confirmed.
TreeJ Company is known as a one-man agency whose only celebrity belongs to Jang.
Jeon is charged with tax evasion of 1.8 billion won in total by omitting income reports of billions of won by finding or using income earned from overseas activities in Hong Kong, etc. by actor Jang Geun-suk, who was a son and a celebrity belonging to Tree J Company. Etc.).
Jeon claimed innocence, saying that he was not willing to evade taxes during the trial, but the court found some of the charges against him as guilty. On the 19th of last month, Section 25-3 of the Criminal Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court (Deputy Judge Kwon Seong-soo, Kim Sun-hee and Lim Jeong-yeop) sentenced Jeon to two years and six months in prison, four years probation, and a fine of 3 billion won.
The judiciary pointed to a point where Chun took actions such as evading taxes over 1.8 billion won after a tax audit. At the same time, he explained the reason for the sentence, saying, “We take into account the fact that the defendant has paid all of the tax that he has been evacuated and has not been punished for the same type of crime.
Jang Geun-suk said in an official statement when his mother, Jeon, was prosecuted in March of last year, saying, “The mother of TreeJ Company as the representative of the company is wholly responsible for the management’s real power and fund management. We do not share any fund management from our mother. “I did not know the related facts at all because I was unable to do so,” he said. “Because of the tax investigation by TreeJ Company, we recognized a serious problem with family management and decided to become independent at the same time as the military enlistment.”
Jang Geun-suk said, “I am feeling a great shock and disastrous from this incident,” and said that he lost trust as a family.