'Big Player' Jang Young-ja has been sentenced to one year in prison and remanded in custody on charges of using forged checks worth 15.4 billion won, which she allegedly gave to an agricultural supplier representative as advance payment. The first trial acquitted her, finding that she was unaware of the forged checks, but the appellate court recognized her guilt, considering that she had committed similar fraud schemes in the past. Jang Young-ja has a history of multiple arrests on fraud charges following a bill fraud case in the 1980s, and she has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against this ruling.
