The eldest son of CJ Group Chairman Jae-Hyun Lee, who has been charged with smoking variant hemp and smuggling it into Korea, was sentenced to prison and sentenced to jail.

The 12th District Court of Criminal Investigation sentenced Lee to four years of imprisonment for three years in prison for a violation of the law on drug control in a sentence on Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier, the prosecution sentenced Mr. Lee to five years in jail on July 7th.

Mr. Lee was charged with smuggling over 180 variant hemp oil cartridges and candy-jelly-type hemp from Incheon International Airport on April 1, 55:55.

When he was caught by the customs authorities, his suitcase included 20 hemp oil cartridges, 37 hemp candy and 130 jelly-type hemp were hidden in his shoulder backpack and three hemp smokers.

He was also accused of smoking six hemp oil cartridges in Los Angeles (LA) for five months from early April to August 30 this year.

Mr. Lee joined CJ CheilJedang in 2013 as the eldest son of Chairman Lee. He worked as head of the bio business team at CJ CheilJedang and moved to Food Strategic Planning in May.

(Video coverage: Lim Dong-guk, Video editing: Eunkyung Lee)