From returning from prison to South Korea, to having completed the registration with the K5 League Jianyong FC, in just one month, when Son Joon-ho has completed the transformation from a criminal suspect to an amateur player, it also raises a huge question - whether he will be acquitted or released after completing his sentence?
Since Son Joon-ho tried to flee back to South Korea in May last year and was detained at the airport, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publicly stated at the time that Son Joon-ho was "suspected of accepting bribes from non-state workers." All the players, coaches, and officials who manipulated the game were also charged with "accepting bribes from non-state functionaries"; so when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs first disclosed Sun Zhunhao's charges in May last year, many people had already guessed that he was involved in the suspected manipulation of the game.
In the less than one year between Son Joon-ho's arrest and his release, the ROK Embassy in China, the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the ROK media have publicly avenged Sun Joon-ho on several occasions! After returning to the ROK, the ROK media have repeatedly revealed that Sun Jun-ho has not pleaded guilty.
According to the Korean Football Association's player registration rules, anyone who is serving a prison sentence or probation cannot register as a professional or amateur player. If sentenced for football-related corruption, you must have completed 5 years in prison before you can register. Therefore, the completion of the registration in the K5 league actually means that when the judicial system in the mainland did not publicize whether Son Joon-ho had committed a crime, the Korean Football Association currently acquiesced that Son Joon-ho was acquitted.
But it is clear that there are too many untenable points in the statement that Sun Junhao was acquitted.
In fact, this wave of football reshuffle, there are more players, coaches, and officials who have lost contact. Some people came back after losing contact for a few days, and some people came back after losing contact for two or three months, or even three or five months. The lost contact time is not long, and it basically belongs to explaining the problem clearly and letting it out. However, in some cases where the circumstances were relatively serious, and as soon as some people were arrested, the relevant departments notified their families to prepare to enter the procedures of "being approved for arrest" and "finding a lawyer to defend themselves."
Sun Zhunhao may be because of the particularity of "foreigners", as soon as he was taken away, a lawyer began to intervene, and he was also the only criminal suspect who was confirmed to have been arrested among the people involved in the case taken away by the Liaoning special case team.
What is the possibility that a criminal suspect who has been arrested and detained for nearly a year will eventually be acquitted? It cannot be said that there is no such possibility at all, but it can be said that the possibility is very small.
According to the relevant laws and regulations of the mainland, if you stay in it for so long and are eventually acquitted, you can apply to the relevant parties for compensation.
For a celebrity like Sun Zhunhao, if he is acquitted after being locked up for so long, then according to relevant regulations, after he applies for compensation, the relevant parties still need to help him eliminate the negative impact through public clarification and other means. Therefore, if Sun Junhao is acquitted, it means that he can apply for the relevant parties to publicly return his innocence, and the South Korean media may also take advantage of the trend to bring a wave of rhythm; after Sun Junhao himself returns to South Korea at that time, he will hold a press conference to publicly sell miserably, which can earn a large wave of traffic.
But what did Son Joon-ho do? After returning to South Korea, although he cried with some familiar Korean media, he was reluctant to give public interviews. The Korean media, which has a strong ability to "gossip", has not said a reason until now!
So how did Son Joon-ho get in in the first place? You can say that he was involved in game rigging, or you can say that he gambled. Because the relevant parties already had evidence that he bet on the Taishan team at that time.
But Sun Zhunhao's "way" of betting on his club is very smart. Because of a part of the Taishan team games, judging from the score on the field, the Taishan team won, but in the institution, it belongs to "the other party won".
Regardless of Sun Zhunhao's behavior, whether it is considered a game manipulation or not, he is at least a proper "gambling crime". It's just that the circumstances of his crime are relatively minor, and the detention time has already exceeded the sentence, and in this case, according to the relevant regulations, he can be released without going through the procuratorate's prosecution procedure. This time, in fact, there are many players who bet on the small amount of money in the game they play for the team, and they also came out in this way.
It's just that not prosecuting doesn't mean acquittal, and the South Korean football circles and South Korean football media really don't know what Sun Junhao did? It's just that the procuratorate didn't prosecute Sun Junhao, so there is no verdict, and the public naturally can't find the key evidence of Sun Junhao's crime. When Sun Junhao himself returned to South Korea, he could naturally be sure that he hadn't done anything!