Hwaseong Do, a former professional soccer player. yunhap news
– A former professional soccer player was arrested in court on charges of intercepting tens of millions of won by tricking a soccer promising parent into “I will join my son to the European professional soccer team.”
On the 8th, Judge Kim Sang-woo, who was solely convicted of criminal six of the Incheon District Court, announced on the 8th that he sentenced Do Hwa-seong (41), who was imprisoned for fraud, to imprisonment of one year and six months in prison and arrested in court.
In March 2017, Mr. Do tricked Mr. A, the father of a first-year high school soccer player, into a café in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, and was charged with intercepting 60 million won in the name of joining the Croatian soccer team. done.
Mr. Do also said, “My son joined the Serbian professional football team with a two-year contract for a total of 100 million won per year,” and was also charged with receiving 15 million won from Mr. A as a success reward.
Mr. Do intercepted two million won for sending A’s son to the Philippines to get a high school diploma, and another two million won for having to go to Japan to watch a soccer game.
Mr. A’s son dropped out of high school where he had been tricked by Mr. Do’s words, and left for Croatia in May 2017, but returned to Korea after a month or so, and eventually quit his career.
The court judged that “the defendant took 79 million won from his father as a bait for joining the European football team, which is a dream of a football promising,” and “the crime is quite bad.”
“The victim’s son eventually quit the football player, and it seems that he is still suffering extreme mental pain.” He said, “However, the defendant denies the crime and does not show reflection, so it is necessary to punish him.” .
This is not the first time Mr. Do’s fraudulent action. In October 2018, Mr. Do was charged with receiving 10 million won from the parents of a soccer player in a cafe in Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do, and intercepting them with a similar technique, and was sentenced to a fine of 3 million won in February last year.
Mr. Do, who joined the K-League Busan Icons (now Busan I’Park) in 2003, retired in 2011 after it was revealed that he was involved in game manipulation. Since 2017, he has operated a professional soccer agent in Incheon.
Reporter Jeong Hye-jeong [email protected]
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