South Korea jails 90-year-old woman for laundering son's drug money

The woman, unnamed in local media reports, received a total of 386m won ($260,800; £192,800) over nine occasions between April 2020 and February 2022, which she transferred to a designated account at her son's direction, an Incheon court heard.

Her son, known as Song in the reports, has been imprisoned in Cambodia since 2020, after he was convicted of trafficking methamphetamine into the country.

"Her actions made it harder to trace illicit profits and contributed to the spread of narcotics, rendering the offence particularly serious," judge Wi Eun-suk of an Incheon district court said on Monday.

Song, who is in his 60s, allegedly implicated his daughter as well, Seoul-based Kyunghyang newspaper reported.