Two former executives acquitted in humidifier cleaner deaths case
Posted : 2021-01-12 16:51
Updated : 2021-01-12 16:51
The former CEO of Aekyung Industrial Ahn Yong-chan enters the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District on Tuesday for a trial on charge of manufacturing and selling a humidifier sterilizer that includes harmful chemicals in the early 2000s. Yonhap
Hong Ji-ho, the former CEO of SK Chemical, leaves the Seoul Central District Court after being acquitted in a trial held Tuesday on charge of manufacturing and selling a humidifier sterilizer that includes harmful chemicals. YonhapA court on Tuesday acquitted the former heads of SK Chemical Co. and the consumer goods company Aekyung Industrial Co. in a deadly humidifier sterilizer case.
Victim cries as two CEOs found not guilty
Posted : 2021-01-12 18:42
Updated : 2021-01-12 18:42
Cho Soon-mi, one of the victims in the toxic humidifier sterilizer case, sheds tears in front of the Seoul Central District Court, Tuesday, after the court found both Hong Ji-ho, the former CEO of SK Chemical, and Ahn Yong-chan, the former CEO of Aekyung Industrial, not guilty of professional negligence resulting in deaths. The two were accused of manufacturing and selling a humidifier sterilizer that included harmful chemicals in the early 2000s, allegedly resulting in deaths and chronic illnesses. The court said the causal relations between the victims lung-related illnesses and the chemicals have not been firmly established. / Yonhap