Jang Jun-suk, former normal supervisor of the Kia Tigers, attends the interrogation on the Seoul Central District Courtroom in Seoul, Jan. 30, 2024. Korea Instances file
Former Kia Tigers normal supervisor Jang Jun-suk was slapped with a lifetime ban by the league Wednesday over bribery allegations, regardless of being acquitted of these expenses final 12 months.
The Korea Baseball Group (KBO) imposed the penalty on Jang following its disciplinary committee assembly on Monday.
Together with Jang, former Tigers skipper Kim Jong-kook acquired a 50-game ban and was ordered to 80 hours of neighborhood service over his personal bribery expenses.
Jang and Kim have been each accused of receiving 100 million gained ($68,100) from the CEO of a meals firm in October 2022 in change for serving to the enterprise signal a sponsorship cope with the Tigers. Kim confronted separated expenses of receiving 60 million gained in change for placing the corporate’s brand on the Tigers’ uniform.
In October 2024, the Seoul Central District Courtroom discovered each not responsible, saying the corporate didn’t obtain any favor from the Tigers and ended up paying extra for its promoting than it usually would have. The court docket added it discovered no proof of any preferential therapy supplied by the ball membership to the corporate.
Nevertheless, the KBO nonetheless decided that Jang’s and Kim’s alleged misconduct warranted punishment in baseball as a result of “their inappropriate motion severely broken credibility and integrity of the KBO.”
Jang, who had earlier been accused of demanding a kickback from a free agent participant throughout contract negotiations in 2022, received the harsher penalty of the 2.
Additionally on Wednesday, former KBO pitcher Bong Jung-keun, not too long ago employed as a minor league pitching coach for the SSG Landers, was ordered to 40 hours of neighborhood service after getting his driver’s license revoked for trying to trip an electrical scooter whereas intoxicated.
The incident occurred in November 2021 whereas Bong was not employed by any KBO crew.
