{"id":642662,"date":"2026-08-13T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=839033"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:27:31","slug":"south-koreas-crypto-crackdown-lands-delio-ceo-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/south-koreas-crypto-crackdown-lands-delio-ceo-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Crypto Crackdown Lands Delio CEO 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/south-korea-halts-kospi-trading-after-8-4-crash-trips-circuit-breaker2_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Flag of South Korea against a blue sky backdrop\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A South Korean court sentenced Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years in prison for misusing roughly $49.2 million in customer cryptocurrency assets and using false documents to secure a regulatory registration. Court Finds Customer Assets Were Misused According to regional reports, the Seoul Southern District Court issued the ruling Aug. 13 and ordered Jeong [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean court sentenced Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years in prison for misusing roughly $49.2 million in customer cryptocurrency assets and using false documents to secure a regulatory registration. Court Finds Customer Assets Were Misused According to regional reports, the Seoul Southern District Court issued the ruling Aug. 13 and ordered Jeong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}