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South Korean chat room operator gets 40 years for blackmail

by Hyung-Jin Kim
| November 26, 2020 12:03 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The operator of online chat rooms in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison on charges of blackmailing dozens of women, including minors, into filming sexually explicit videos and selling them to others.

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