South Korean prosecutors reject arrest warrant for Hybe chairman Bang Si-hyuk, asks police to build a stronger case | Korean News

4 min readHyderabadApr 24, 2026 06:29 PM IST

South Korean prosecutors on Friday rejected a police request to arrest Bang Si-hyuk, the 53-year-old billionaire founder and chairman of Hybe, the entertainment company behind K-pop supergroup BTS, saying investigators had not yet built a strong enough case to justify his detention.

The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office returned the arrest warrant request to police, saying it was filed on charges of fraudulent unfair trading under the Capital Markets Act….