Oliver Conway

And the remaining children and members of staff, are new negotiations going on to try to get those released as well?

Richard Kugoy, talking to me from Nairobi.

A woman and a man have been found guilty of blackmailing South Korean football star Son Heung-min for $200,000.

A South Korean court sentenced the woman to four years in jail and her male accomplice to two years for extorting the Los Angeles FC goalscorer.

Our correspondent in Seoul, Jake Kwon, has been following the story.

I think many of our listeners probably remember him as the former captain of Tottenham.

And what we are learning today is that the South Korean court has sentenced the woman to four years in prison for essentially blackmailing the football star.

And to go back a little bit, you know, this young woman in her 20s have approached Son last year saying that she is pregnant with his child.

Now, we do not know whether the child was his child.

It seems that the woman herself did not know whether it was his.

And, you know, according to local reports, she got an abortion soon.

So we will never find out.

And the court could not find out.

But still, Mr. Son still provided her with around 200,000 U.S.

dollars for her to stay silent.

Now, South Korea is a place where these kind of scandal, they're very much hushed.

And Mr. Son does have a very squeaky clean image.

And he really wanted this to not go out.

Now, when the woman and her accomplice reached out to him again this year, asking for even more money, that's when he went to the police.

Now, she was arrested and the police investigation followed.