SEOUL, July 18 -- YG Entertainment's founder and chief producer, Yang Hyun-suk, has been convicted of intimidating a whistleblower to suppress a drug-related allegation involving a former YG artist.

As reported by the Korea JoongAng Daily, the Supreme Court upheld the appellate court's ruling today, which sentenced Yang to six months in prison, suspended for one year. He was found guilty of violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes, which covers retaliatory threats and coercing individuals into meetings.

Yang was indicted in May 2020 without detention, following accusations of meddling in the police investigation into illegal drug use by B.I, a former member of the boy band iKON.

The case stemmed from an inciden...