{"id":143750,"date":"2025-05-30T01:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/hybe-is-cooperating-with-authorities-over-allegations-of-insider-trading\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T01:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:12:21","slug":"hybe-is-cooperating-with-authorities-over-allegations-of-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/hybe-is-cooperating-with-authorities-over-allegations-of-insider-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"HYBE Is &#8216;Cooperating&#8217; With Authorities Over Allegations of Insider Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tProsecutors raided the Seoul headquarters of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hybe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hybe\" data-tag=\"hybe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HYBE<\/a> \u2014 the Ok-pop company behind such international acts as BTS and Seventeen \u2014 on Thursday amid allegations of insider buying and selling involving a former government. In a press release shared with <em>Variety<\/em>, the corporate confirms it&#8217;s cooperating with native authorities because the investigation unfolds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Seoul Southern District Prosecutors\u2019 Office is trying into allegations that an government not with the corporate illegally earned earnings of as much as $176,500 {dollars} (240 million gained) by way of inventory buying and selling utilizing insider data, per<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/companies\/20250529\/prosecutors-search-k-pop-powerhouse-hybe-over-allegations-of-fraudulent-trading\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/companies\/20250529\/prosecutors-search-k-pop-powerhouse-hybe-over-allegations-of-fraudulent-trading\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> The Korea Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe cooperated with the authorities in response to their request for information concerning the conduct of a former employee,\u201d stated a spokesperson for HYBE Global.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe identification of the previous worker stays hid as officers examine that individual\u2019s buy of YG Plus (an affiliate of YG Entertainment) shares, a transaction stated to have occured after the accused government discovered of HYBE\u2019s plan to spend money on the corporate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElsewhere, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/hybe-and-chairman-bang-si-hyuk-under-investigation-by-south-koreas-financial-regulator-over-secret-shareholder-contracts-in-ipo-report\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/hybe-and-chairman-bang-si-hyuk-under-investigation-by-south-koreas-financial-regulator-over-secret-shareholder-contracts-in-ipo-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">experiences <\/a>of illegal conduct by the hands of HYBE\u2019s Founder and Chairman,\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/global\/news\/hitman-bang-si-hyuk-on-his-expanding-music-empire-hybe-and-his-shift-into-gaming-1235991260\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/global\/news\/hitman-bang-si-hyuk-on-his-expanding-music-empire-hybe-and-his-shift-into-gaming-1235991260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bang Si-hyuk<\/a>, surfaced in December on account of the chief being monitored by Korea\u2019s Financial Services Supervisors. Though separate from the investigation that occured this morning, monetary regulators in Korea are trying into claims Si-hyuk purposefully misguided traders forward of the corporate\u2019s first public providing in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the final 5 years, the corporate has labored to broaden internationally, with <a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/hybe-latin-medellin-music-lab-colombia-ready-to-make-history-1236377903\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/hybe-latin-medellin-music-lab-colombia-ready-to-make-history-1236377903\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budding sectors<\/a> in international markets together with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hybecorp.com\/eng\/news\/news\/5684\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/hybecorp.com\/eng\/news\/news\/5684\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a> and the <a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/music\/news\/scooter-braun-hybe-ceo-bts-1235500913\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/music\/news\/scooter-braun-hybe-ceo-bts-1235500913\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHYBE America declined <em>Variety<\/em>\u2018s request for remark. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Prosecutors raided the Seoul headquarters of HYBE \u2014 the Ok-pop company behind such international acts as BTS and Seventeen \u2014 on Thursday amid allegations of insider buying and selling involving a former government. In a press release shared with Variety, the corporate confirms it&#8217;s cooperating with native authorities because the investigation unfolds. 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