A group of loan fraudsters who conspired to give false testimony in court in exchange for so-called ‘okbaraji’, including payment of attorney fees, have been brought to trial.
According to the legal community on the 20th, the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office additionally indicted, without detention, Mr. A, a man in his 20s, who is accused of instigating perjury, and Mr. B, a man in his 20s, who is accused of perjury. Among them, Mr. A was sentenced to prison for a separate case and is currently serving his sentence.
Person A is accused of embezzling a total of 100 million won in April 2022 by using the ‘Youth Customized Monthly Rent Support System’, which provides low-interest loans to low-income, homeless youth. Person B was confirmed to be an accomplice who worked under Person A as a false tenant recruiter and embezzled the money together.
Person A gathers fake landlords and tenants through social networking services (SNS) through recruiters such as Person B under the aliases of ‘National Bank’ or ‘Team Leader Kim.’ After these tenants sign a fake lease contract, they transfer the loan money received from a commercial bank to the broker, and Person A embezzles some of it.
When Mr. A was brought to trial on these charges, he had already been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for embezzling 300 million won in the same manner. Mr. A asked Mr. B, who appeared in court as a witness, to make a statement favorable to him in exchange for attorney fees and payment of a settlement.
In response, Mr. B gave false testimony in court, stating that he did not know who ordered the crime. Considering this testimony and other factors, the court judged that it was difficult to acknowledge the conspiracy between Mr. A and Mr. B, and sentenced Mr. A to not guilty in the first trial. The prosecution immediately appealed.
Afterwards, the prosecution secured KakaoTalk conversation records in which A and B agreed to coordinate their words, as well as records of them riding in the same escort vehicle when leaving the detention center, and discovered circumstances in which A instructed B to commit perjury, and indicted him on charges of instigation of perjury and perjury.
A prosecutor said, “We will do our utmost to maintain the indictment so that Mr. A, who attempted to avoid punishment by obstructing justice and instructing false testimony despite committing a serious crime, pays the price.”
(Seoul = News 1)
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