Court Sentences S. Korean National & US Resident to 6 Months in Jail for FBAR Violations on Swiss Account

On June 25, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Brinkema in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Hyong Kwon Kim, a citizen of South Korea and, since 1998, a legal permanent resident of the United States, who resided in Massachusetts and later in Connecticut, to serve a sentence of six-months imprisonment for failing to report accounts in Switzerland with a value exceeding $28 million.  The sentence took into account Kim’s cooperation with the government, which occurred for more than a five-year span.