Petroleum refiners, etc. shall not sell or deliver petroleum products that fail to pass a quality test or store, transport or keep them for the purpose of sale or delivery.

Nevertheless, on September 15, 2014, the Defendant kept approximately 4,400 liters for the purpose of selling 1,579 won per liter, which failed to meet the quality standards at the above D gas station.

2. The following circumstances acknowledged by the evidence duly adopted and examined by this court: (i) although the defendant is the representative director of E Co., Ltd. operating D gas stations, the defendant was actually operating; (ii) the defendant did not have been involved in the operation; (iii) G, at the time of collecting the samples, made it possible to collect the samples after spreading water in the entrance of the above oil tank at the time of collecting the samples; (iv) the defendant asserts that the water tank flow out into the tank due to the outbreak of a hole in the oil tank; and (v) the defendant did not discover petroleum products below quality standards in other gas tanks and oil tanks; (v) the fact that the above oil tank was found to have failed to meet the quality standards for the oil tank and its specifications; and (v) the fact that the above oil tank was found to have failed to meet the quality standards for the petroleum products connected thereto; and (v) the fact that G, which collected samples at the above oil stations, did not cause a mixture of petroleum products with the motive to sell the petroleum products without any delay.