The Supreme Court has upheld a suspended prison term for former Rep. Youn Mee-hyang, who was convicted of embezzling donations to an advocacy group for South Korean victims of sexual slavery during World War II.

On Thursday the top court upheld the 18-month sentence, suspended for three years, after dismissing appeals from both the prosecution and the former opposition-turned-independent lawmaker.

Youn, who previously headed the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, was indicted in September 2020 and accused of misappropriating donations starting in 2011.

She was convicted and fined 15 million won, or around eleven-thousand U.S. dollars.

An appellate court added the suspended prison term after reexamining the evidence and concluding she had embezzled 80 million won in donations and misappropriated 65 million won in state subsidies.

While Youn would be stripped of her seat in parliament if she were an incumbent lawmaker, she completed her four-year term in May while the appeal was still in progress.