The 2 Shonen Leap leakers face potential jail sentences following their latest trial for leaking chapters of Shonen Leap manga forward of their official launch date. The decision is predicted on July 25, 2024.
Prosecutors are in search of a sentence of 1.5 years in jail for the corporate supervisor Musa Samir and 1 yr for his assistant. The prosecution additionally requested hefty fines (reportedly 500,000 yen yen & 300,000 yen) for each people and their firm.
The defence argued for a suspended sentence, claiming the boys had been misled into leaking the chapters by a international particular person, DBS Hype, who promised to advertise their firm in alternate for the leaks.
Nevertheless, the defence claimed this promise was by no means fulfilled, and the boys apparently didn’t obtain any monetary acquire.
Furthermore, it was additionally revealed that leaks of Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days and Eden Zero at the moment are a part of the investigation.
The supervisor and the worker, each French nationals, had been arrested on Feb 4, 2024.
The Kumamoto Police revealed that Samir’s firm is concerned in coping with Leap and associated items and that they obtained the copy of Leap earlier than its launch to promote at their very own firm.
In some circumstances, the photographs they scanned had been modified to make them seem as in the event that they weren’t scanned from a paper journal, however the publishers have confirmed that no digital information was leaked from the publishers.
In response to the cops, the photographs they leaked had been translated to a number of international languages together with English and reposted on varied websites.
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