Korean Police Allege Box Office Rigging of More Than 300 Movies
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief South Korean police said on Wednesday that they had found evidence that the box office performance of 323 films over the past five years had been inflated.
Seoul Metropolitan Police said that, as a result, they had referred 69 people from major exhibition chains and 24 film distribution companies to prosecutors.
The prosecutors will determine whether or not to proceed with criminal cases. The force’s anti-corruption and public crime investigation team began probing the sector earlier this year and in June raided the offices of CJ-CGV, Megabox and Lotte Cinema, the country’s three largest cinema operators.
At the time, it also emerged that the premises of distributors Showbox, Lotte Entertainment and Kidari had also been visited.
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