The 2 Shonen Bounce leakers face doable jail sentences following their latest trial for leaking chapters of Shonen Bounce manga forward of their official launch date. The decision is anticipated on July 25, 2024.
The prosecution is in search of a jail sentence of 1.5 years for the corporate director Musa Samir and 1 12 months for his assistant. The prosecution additionally demanded hefty fines (reportedly 500,000 yen and 300,000 yen) for each the people and their firm.
The protection argued for a suspended sentence, as a result of they claimed the lads had been tricked into leaking the chapters by a overseas particular person, DBS Hype. The foreigner promised to advertise their firm in alternate for the leaks.
Nevertheless, the protection argued that this promise was by no means fulfilled and that the lads apparently derived no monetary profit from it.
As well as, it was additionally revealed that there have been leaks of Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days And Eden Zero are actually a part of the investigation.
The supervisor and the worker, each of French nationality, have been arrested on February 4, 2024.
Kumamoto police revealed that Samir’s firm is concerned within the commerce of Bounce and associated items and that they obtained a replica of Bounce earlier than its launch to promote at their very own firm.
In some instances, the scanned photographs have been altered to look as in the event that they weren’t from a paper journal. Nevertheless, the publishers have confirmed that no digital knowledge from the publishers was leaked.
In response to police, the leaked photographs have been translated into a number of overseas languages, together with English, and reposted on a number of websites.
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