{"id":19370,"date":"2023-06-19T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/do-kwon-gets-4-months-in-prison-in-montenegro-on-fake-passport-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:09:21","slug":"do-kwon-gets-4-months-in-prison-in-montenegro-on-fake-passport-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/do-kwon-gets-4-months-in-prison-in-montenegro-on-fake-passport-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Kwon gets 4 months in prison in Montenegro on fake passport charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been found guilty of using a false passport by a court in Montenegro and has been sentenced to four months in prison.<\/p>\n
Kwon\u2019s colleague and former Terraform Labs chief financial officer Han Chong-joon was charged alongside him and received the same sentence. The time both men spent in detention will be taken into account, the Montenegro Basic Court said in a statement on its website. <\/p>\n
Kwon was charged with attempting to leave the country using a false Costa Rican passport. He reportedly told a Montenegro court that he wasn\u2019t aware the passport he was traveling with was allegedly forged and instead pinned the blame on a Chinese-named agency.<\/p>\n
Related:\u00a0Do Kwon denies forging passport, blames \u2018Chinese\u2019 agency: Report<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n According to a June 17 report from South Korean news outlet Segye Ilbo, Kwon told the Montenegro Basic Court he received his allegedly forged passports and travel documentation, including a Costa Rican passport, through third-party \u201cagencies.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Kwon, because he\u2019d been traveling with his Costa Rican passport \u201cfor years,\u201d he had no reason to doubt its authenticity.<\/p>\n In addition to denying forgery of travel documentation, Kwon denied allegations he made any financial donations to Montenegro\u2019s former finance minister Milojko Spaji\u0107, the now-leader of the Europe Now party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been found guilty of using a false passport by a court in Montenegro and has been sentenced to four months in prison. Kwon\u2019s colleague and former Terraform Labs chief financial officer Han Chong-joon was charged alongside him and received the same sentence. The time both men spent in detention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"yoast_head":"\n