Ex-YG CEO acquitted in first B.I drug scandal trial

Former YG Leisure head Yang Hyun-suk has been acquitted after his first trial for a previous drug investigation involving B.I.

South Korean information outlet Maeil Kyungje reported earlier right now (December 22) that The twenty third Division of the Felony Settlement of the Seoul Central District Court docket held a sentencing listening to in opposition to Yang on fees of violating the Act on Aggravated Punishment.

Yang was first indicted with fees of attempting to cowl up the drug scandal final yr, after he was accused of threatening and coercing an informant who testified relating to B.I’s alleged drug buy to the police in August 2016. The informant additionally claimed that the unique investigation into B.I’s alleged drug use had been swept underneath the rug as a consequence of Yang’s connections throughout the police. Yang was additionally stated to have conspired with a separate leisure company as a way to power the identical informant abroad that very same yr.

Based on Maeil Kyungje, the decide adjudicating right now’s listening to acquitted these fees, saying: “There’s inadequate proof to conclude that the accused threatened the sufferer by notifying the sufferer of particular and direct hurt.” Extra feedback relating to Yang’s case haven’t been revealed on the time of writing.

Allegations of B.I’s drug buy and use first surfaced in 2019, after a report detailing his exploits in 2016 was revealed. The informant had themselves been booked for drug use, and subsequently disclosed B.I’s supposed drug use to native police. The singer later departed from iKON amid the controversy, nevertheless later examined damaging for medicine in 2020.

Since his exit from iKON and YG Leisure, B.I has pursued a solo profession in music. Most lately, he dropped his mini-album ‘Love Or Beloved Half. 1’ final month, led by title observe ‘Maintain Me Up’. It marked B.I’s first launch of 2022, and included pre-release single ‘BTBT’.

The brand new report can be considered one of two EPs to be launched as a part of his ongoing “international album undertaking”, nevertheless a launch window for half two of the sequence has but to be shared by B.I or his company, 131 Label.