According to the legal community on the 27th, the Cheongju District Prosecutor’s Office indicted Kim Min-seok on the 19th for a fine of 8 million won.
Kim Min-seok is suspected of causing an accident on July 22 last year in Jincheon National Training Center, Chungcheongbuk-do, when he drove his car while intoxicated and crashed into a curbstone on a sidewalk block. 스포츠토토
The police analyzed closed-circuit (CC) TV from a restaurant near the athletes’ village and confirmed that Min-seok Kim had been drinking with three of his fellow players before the accident.
At the time, the police, who estimated Kim Min-seok’s blood alcohol level at the level of license revocation, sent him to the prosecution with the opinion of indicting him without detention.
A summary order has not yet been issued, but if a fine is decided at the current spherical amount, Min-seok Kim’s participation in the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics will be difficult.
According to the Korea Sports Council’s national team selection and operation regulations, a person who has been punished under Article 148-2 of the Road Traffic Act for related acts such as drunk driving and has not passed three years since being sentenced to a fine of 5 million won or more, or after being sentenced to a fine of less than 5 million won You cannot play for the national team after two years.
If Kim Min-seok is fined more than 5 million won, he will not be able to return to the national team for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
He can request a formal trial if he does not accept the verdict, but it is expected that it will take several months for the sentence to be finalized.
In this case, even if they receive a fine of less than 5 million won through a formal trial, they will be disqualified from the national team for two years.
Previously, in August of last year, the Sports Fair Committee of the Korea Skating Federation imposed a disciplinary suspension of 1 year and 6 months on Kim Min-seok by applying a drunk driving accident, drunken disturbance, and damage to the dignity of an athlete, and reviewed the judgment of the judge in the future. It has been stated that if it falls under the cause of disqualification, it will take action according to the relevant regulations.
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