The CEO of a South Korean crypto exchange who was found guilty of murdering his lover by stabbing her and pushing her out of a 19th-storey apartment window has had his appeal rejected – and will serve 25 years in prison.

The 33-year-old man was convicted back in July, but chose to appeal the initial verdict. The court at the time heard that the unnamed accused attacked his (also unnamed) lover (aged in her 20s) in November 2021 while under the influence of narcotics. The man’s lover, the court heard, had approached the CEO telling him she wanted to end their relationship.

Newspim reported that the CEO’s legal team had pleaded for the crime to be downgraded to manslaughter, stating that he was “mentally and physically weak” at the time of the crime, and told the court that he “had been receiving psychiatric treatment for a long time.”

(By Tim Alper)