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Five rappers who became famous for appearing on a cable TV hip-hop contest program in Korea were arrested by the police on charges of inhaling cannabis.
Reporter Jo Yoon-ha reports.
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Rappers Nafla and Luffy, who won the championship and runner-up in the hip-hop contest program'Show Me the Money', respectively, were caught by the police after inhaling cannabis.
They are accused of smoking cannabis in their studio in September last year.
It was investigated that rapper O-Lean, Young West, and Blue, who were colleagues from the same management company, also inhaled hemp.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's drug investigation team confiscated and searched the studios of their management companies, and tested the hair and urine of rappers Nafla and Luffy, and found a positive drug.
[Police official: Because I confiscated and searched for music practice.
I did it in September.]
All five people, including Nafla and Luffy, are known to have admitted to inhaling drugs during a police investigation.
The police sent five acquaintances who inhaled cannabis along with five rappers, including Nafla and Luffy, to the prosecution in November last year for violating the Narcotics Control Act.
Of these, Young West was prosecuted in July of this year and is currently being tried, and the remaining four, including Nafla, were suspended from prosecution considering the fact that they were first offenders.
The agency side said yesterday (19th) through social media, "I bow my head and apologize to all those who would have suffered a lot of disappointment and shock," and said, "We have prepared strong disciplinary measures to prevent recurrence."