[뉴스컬처 권수빈 기자] Representative Kwon Jin-young, who is under suspicion of unpaid music fee for singer Lee Seung-gi, expressed his position on the suspicion of proxy prescription.
On the 8th, a media outlet reported suspicions that Hook Entertainment (hereafter referred to as Hook) CEO Kwon Jin-young had been ordering company employees to use corporate cards and receive proxy prescriptions for the past two years. He said that he ordered a company employee to receive the medicine after receiving prescriptions by proxy more than 30 times.
Regarding this, Hook said, “CEO Jinyoung Kwon received a proxy prescription according to legal procedures, and there was no illegal or illegal act in the process. Medical laws allow proxy prescriptions in certain cases, and due to COVID-19, from February 24, 2020, a temporary As a result, the scope of proxy recipients has expanded to include acquaintances who help with treatment.”
“CEO Jin-Young Kwon has severe hemiplegia due to a cerebral infarction that occurred in 2015, and is very uncomfortable to the extent that he needs help from an assistant even in daily life. They are persons who can receive proxy prescriptions as stipulated by medical laws, and in particular, those who can receive proxy prescriptions through acquaintances as the scope of proxy recipients is temporarily expanded,” he said. ‘I don’t,’ he said.
Substitute prescription of sleeping pills is also legal, and it is possible to prescribe sleeping pills by proxy, despite the “temporary measure to restrict prescription of psychotropic drugs for non-face-to-face treatment”. Ministry of Health and Welfare Publication No. 」, ① non-face-to-face treatment ② prescription of narcotics and drugs concerned with misuse and abuse are restricted. However, as the Ministry of Health and Welfare distributed in a press release, the agency prescription implemented from February 24, 2020 is subject to the temporary non-face-to-face specific It does not fall under the restrictions on drug prescriptions. Therefore, CEO Kwon Jin-young, who suffers from a sleep disorder, received a prescription for sleeping pills according to the doctor’s permission and related laws, and this is not illegal at all.”
Regarding the report, Representative Kwon Jin-young said, “The facts are wrong and it is a serious defamation.” We believe that CEO Kwon Jin-young intentionally misrepresented the facts in order to damage CEO Kwon Jin-young’s honor through the expression ‘running a suspicious drug’ with the same nuance as if his act of receiving prescriptions was illegal.”
Regarding this, he said, “We will take legal action against the media and reporters in question.” CEO Kwon Jin-young bows his head in apology for the controversy and has no intention of avoiding responsibility. “I think it’s excessive to be criticized for just one reason, and it’s an act of obliterating the human rights that even a little bit remains of CEO Kwon Jin-young,” he said. In addition, he added, “We inform you that we will hold civil and criminal responsibilities against the media and individual reporters, and we ask you to accurately check the facts when citing the article.”
News Culture Subin Kwon ppbn0101@knewscorp.co.kr
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