泛LG家族三代具本贤潜逃8年在柬埔寨落网、被遣返韩国：涉操纵股价与挪用资金，11月11日已被羁押
韩国首尔警察厅11月13日公布，泛LG家族第三代、现年57岁的前 EXA E&C 代表具本贤在潜逃海外8年后于柬埔寨落网，11月9日被强制遣返韩国并在抵达时被捕，11月11日法院签发拘捕令，他已被羁押。警方说，他对大部分指控已经承认，但称并非独自作案、另有同伙参与。
警方指控，具本贤在2016年2月至2017年12月期间，借用他人名义的投资公司，在没有自有资金的情况下接连收购两家科斯达克上市公司，再以这两家公司的股票作抵押借款收购未上市企业，并发布内容不实的利好公告拉抬股价，随后卖出借名持有的股份牟利。检方此前估算其不当获利约145亿韩元，但审理其同伙案件的法院未能认定这一具体金额。另外，警方指控他挪用关联公司资金46亿韩元用于个人娱乐等开支，并因无担保放贷与擅自质押公司股份给公司造成123亿韩元的背任损失。他涉嫌违反《资本市场法》中的欺诈性不当交易规定，并涉嫌特定经济犯罪加重处罚法上的挪用与背任。
据警方说明，具本贤2018年10月在韩国金融监督院调查期间前往荷兰，当时检方尚未立案；此后他辗转法国与泰国，在护照被注销前进入柬埔寨。2019年5月，法院对他签发逮捕令，国际刑警组织的红色通缉令也已发出。今年8月25日，柬埔寨警方在当地加强打击电话诈骗与网络诈骗的盘查中将他抓获，韩方随后完成遣返。警方说，他在柬埔寨期间与当地居民一同生活，目前尚未发现协助他潜逃的人。
这不是具本贤第一次涉股价操纵案：他曾因收购一家先进材料企业时操纵股价、获利约139亿韩元，于2012年被韩国大法院判处3年有期徒刑定案。警方计划下周把本案移交检方，并考虑申请扣押保全，以防涉案财产被转移。
（来源：首尔警察厅）
LG Family Scion Koo Bon-hyun Repatriated From Cambodia After Eight Years on the Run: Detained Over Stock Manipulation and Embezzlement Allegations
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on November 13 that Koo Bon-hyun, 57, a third-generation member of the extended LG family and a former chief executive of EXA E&C, had been apprehended in Cambodia after eight years abroad, forcibly repatriated to South Korea on November 9 and arrested on arrival. A court issued a detention warrant on November 11 and he is now in custody. Police said he has admitted most of the allegations while saying he did not act alone and had accomplices.
Police allege that between February 2016 and December 2017 Koo used a nominee investment company to acquire two KOSDAQ-listed companies without his own capital, borrowed against those companies' shares to buy unlisted firms, and filed false favourable disclosures that presented the purchases as equity-financed, pushing up the share prices before selling nominee-held shares. Prosecutors initially estimated his illicit gains at about 14.5 billion won, although a court in his accomplices' case could not determine that exact figure. Police also allege he embezzled 4.6 billion won of affiliate funds for personal entertainment and the like, and caused 12.3 billion won in breach-of-trust losses through uncollateralised lending of affiliate funds and unauthorised pledging of corporate shares. He is suspected of fraudulent unfair trading under the Capital Markets Act and of embezzlement and breach of trust under the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes.
According to police, Koo left for the Netherlands in October 2018 while the Financial Supervisory Service was investigating, before prosecutors opened their inquiry, then moved through France and Thailand and entered Cambodia before his passport was invalidated. An arrest warrant was issued in May 2019 and an Interpol Red Notice followed. On August 25 this year, Cambodian police apprehended him during intensified checks amid a local crackdown on voice-phishing and romance-scam crimes, and Korea then completed the repatriation. Police said he had lived with local residents in Cambodia and that no helper in his evasion has been identified.
It is not Koo's first stock manipulation case: he was convicted of manipulating shares while acquiring an advanced-materials company for illicit gains of about 13.9 billion won, and the Supreme Court upheld a three-year prison sentence in 2012. Police plan to refer the case to prosecutors next week and are considering a forfeiture-preservation application to stop the alleged proceeds being moved.
(Source: Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency)
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