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Korean Supreme Court Rules Cryptocurrency Is Asset With Economic Value

Geplaatst op mei 30, 2018 door Blockchain News

Korean Supreme Court Rules Cryptocurrency Is Asset With Economic Value

The South Korean Supreme Court has ruled that cryptocurrency is an asset with economic value that can be confiscated. In the case involving a porn site and 191 confiscated BTC, the country’s top court upheld a district court’s ruling.

Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space

Supreme Court Has Ruled

Korean Supreme Court Rules Cryptocurrency Is Asset With Economic Value
Supreme Court of South Korea.

South Korea’s top court ruled on Wednesday that the government could confiscate cryptocurrencies as crime profits since they are assets with economic value.

The case involves Ahn, who operated an online porn site, and his 191 BTC that the prosecution confiscated, as news.Bitcoin.com previously reported. “This marks the first time a cryptocurrency has been subject to confiscation,” the Korea Times wrote.

With Wednesday’s ruling, “The Supreme Court recognized cryptocurrency as an ‘asset with measurable value,’” the publication detailed and quoted the Court stating:

The cryptocurrency is recognized to have value so it can be confiscated.

191 BTC Confiscated

“From 2013, Ahn distributed 235,000 obscene pictures online and made 1.9 billion won,” the news outlet described, adding that he “was arrested and indicted in May 2017 for violating the Protection of Children and Juveniles From Sexual Abuse Law.” Ahn was subsequently “sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined 696 million won by a lower court, confirmed by both a high court and the Supreme Court.”

Korean Supreme Court Rules Cryptocurrency Is Asset With Economic ValueWhen Ahn was arrested, the prosecution seized his 216 BTC, claiming that they “were earned illegally and urged they be seized as cyber assets,” the publication conveyed. However, a lower court ruled against them, “stating bitcoins only existed electronically and had no physical form.”

The prosecutors then appealed to a high court which “ruled in the prosecution’s favor, saying the cyber assets could be seen as profit earned from the trade in goods.” The high court ruled that 191 of “bitcoins [seized] were earned from the proceeds of crime,” and ordered them to be confiscated. At the time of this writing, this amount of BTC is worth over $1.4 million.

The publication quoted the high court explaining at the time:

If we return the bitcoins to Ahn, it will be giving him back profits that were earned illegally from running an online porn site.

“The Supreme Court upheld this ruling,” the news outlet reiterated, adding that this “will allow any cyber assets gained from illegal activity such as gambling, drug deals, pornography and prostitution to be confiscated.”

What do you think of the Korean Supreme Court’s ruling? Let us know in the comments section below.


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