Yang Hyun-suk, a former YG Entertainment chief producer who was summarily indicted in May this year on charges of gambling hundreds of millions of won overseas, will face a formal trial.
According to the Seoul Western District Court on July 21, the court in charge of the summary indictment case referred four people, including Yang, to a formal trial on July 16. The trial will be conducted by judge Park Soo-hyun and the date of the first trial will be set later.
A court official said, "We thought it was inappropriate to judge the case only through a written hearing. For a careful hearing, we referred it to a formal trial process."
A summary indictment is a procedure in which prosecutors request penalties or fines to be imposed only on written hearings instead of formal trials. If a party or court raises an objection, it will be handed over to a formal trial.
Yang is suspected of leaving for the Las Vegas casino seven times from July 2015 to January 2019 and gambling worth a total of $335,460 (about 388 million won) with other party members.
Earlier, the police, who investigated Yang, sent him to the prosecution with an opinion of indictment, but the prosecution summarily indicted him on simple gambling charges, judging that it was not habitual gambling considering the number of gambling cases.
