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So Do Kwon would provably stay in prison for long time.
It depends on what someone considers a long time, because 15 years seems like a long time, although for such a crime it is definitely not a lot. What no one mentions (and it's written in the article) is that after 50% of his sentence is served, DK will have the opportunity to request to be transferred to South Korea, that's part of the plea agreement. I don't know what the laws are there, so it's possible he could get more than 15 years in prison in total, or less if he gets transferred after 7.5 years and they give him less than the second half of the sentence there.
It's likely possible that if he is transferred back to his national (South Korea) after serving 7.5 year in US prison, he might not serve the last 7.5 years complete in his national, the reason I said so is because the legal officials there could show him mercy and reduce the time frame judging by how his defender (lawyer) in court argued that his sentence should have been a 5 year imprisonment. But it will be unfair to reduce his sentence because I feel that even the 15 years sentence is not enough to compensate for the massive loss that many investors went through, even Sam Bankman of FTX was sentenced to 25 years, I expected the same 20+ years for DK.
Looking at this situation, we need to understand that compassion costs money. Do Kwon spent a lot of money in Montenegro, then had to go through a nearly year-long trial in the US, and all of this was very expensive.
South Korea has very strict laws regarding fraud, which is why Do Kwon decided to go to the US.
Seven years later, this material will be forgotten by everyone.