South Korean Judge Shin jong-oh, who presided over the share price manipulation case against former President Yoon Seok-yok’s wife Kim kin-hee, was found dead Wednesday morning at Seoul’s High Court, Chosun Ilbo and other media reported. Later, South Korean media quoted sources as saying that a suicide note had been found on Shin. It read: “I’m sorry, I’m leaving alone” and made no mention of Kim or the sentence.
Reported that, according to police and legal sources 6, the day before the police received a call around midnight, in the court building found Shin Chung-oh, and sent to the hospital. Police are investigating the exact cause of his death and initially concluded that he fell to his death.
On April 28, in the second trial of his first case, the court found that Jin Jianxi had violated the capital market law and the law on aggravating circumstances for certain crimes, he was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 50 million won (about 230,000 yuan) for manipulating stock prices and brokering bribes. The court also announced the confiscation of a high-priced necklace and the recovery of more than 20 million won. On April 30, Kim Jian-hee appealed against the second-instance verdict.