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South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds artist Cho Young-nam’s fraud acquittal

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South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds artist Cho Young-nam’s fraud acquittal
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The court upheld Cho Young-nam’s acquittal on fraud charges involving the sale of 21 paintings produced with assistants. The appellate acquittal had reversed an initial suspended prison sentence. Image shows one of the paintings in the case, via Yonhap.

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