The proprietor and also Chief Executive Officer of a Republic of Korea– based firm, DK Marine, that offered ship husbanding solutions to the UNITED STATE Navy begged guilty Friday for his duty in a bribery conspiracy theory.
The UNITED STATE Department of Justice reports that Sung Yol “David” Kim, 49, a resident of the Republic of Korea, begged guilty to one matter of conspiracy theory to devote bribery prior to UNITED STATE District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith of the Eastern District ofMichigan Sentencing has actually been set up forNov 17, 2020, previously Judge Goldsmith.
In his guilty appeal, Kim confessed that in between October 2013 and also January 2014, he conspired with James Russell Driver III, a noncombatant UNITED STATE Navy freight ship captain, and also one more private UNITED STATE Navy staff member to have Kim and also his firm supply husbanding solutions for Driver’s ship throughout a December 2013 port check out in Chinhae, Republic of Korea, in offense of ideal UNITED STATE Navy husbanding treatments. Driver additionally given Kim with personal and also various other proprietary, interior UNITED STATE Navy info. In exchange, Kim paid kickbacks to Driver, consisting of individual traveling expenditures for Driver and also his family members. Driver begged guilty to his duty in the conspiracy theory in March 2019.
