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South Korea jails 90-year-old woman for laundering drug money for imprisoned son

Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 10:10 · 1 min read

A South Korean court has sentenced a 90-year-old woman to one year in prison after she was found guilty of laundering over 386 million won (roughly $261,000) in drug proceeds for her son. The woman transferred funds across nine transactions between 2020 and 2022 on instructions from her son, who has been imprisoned in Cambodia since 2020 following a methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The Incheon district court (located in a major port city west of Seoul) ruled that her familiarity with her son's detention made clear she knew the money was illicit, though it factored in her advanced age and clean record when determining her sentence.

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BBC WorldSouth Korea jails 90-year-old woman for laundering son's drug money ↗︎
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