Shin was convicted of transferring $6. 5 million to choi soon-sil, a confidante of. · shin was found guilty on the charge of bribing an associate of former president park through his lotte group, and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for it. Shin dong - bin , 63, the chairman of lotte group, has been jailed for two and a half years on charges tied to a corruption scandal that engulfed the former president, park geun-hye. · seoul (reuters, bloomberg, afp) - a seoul court on friday (dec 22) handed down to lotte group chairman shin dong bin a two-year suspension of a jail sentence related to corruption charges. · in 2018, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for a bribery case involving former president park geun-hye. · a court in seoul, south korea , on friday convicted shin dong - bin , the chairman of the multinational lotte group, of embezzlement and breach of trust in connection with a corruption. The head of south korea ’s fifth largest conglomerate has been sentenced to jail for bribery. · lotte group chairman shin dong - bin was sentenced to two-and-half-years in prison on tuesday (13 february) for bribery by the seoul district court. · lotte chief shin dong-bin was sentenced to 30 months in prison after a seoul court found him guilty of bribery charges in exchange for govt favours in providing a license to operate duty-free.