90-year-old mother sentenced for laundering drug money for son

A South Korean court has sentenced a woman in her 90s to prison for helping launder drug proceeds on behalf of her son, a trafficking ringleader currently jailed in Cambodia. The Incheon District Court handed the defendant a one-year prison sentence and ordered the forfeiture of 386 million won ($260,000) for violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Prevention of Illegal Trafficking in Narcotics. The court found that she knowingly received and transferred funds linked to narcotics crime

By The Korea Herald