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The defendant is innocent. The summary of this judgment shall be notified publicly.
Reasons
1. Summary of the facts charged
A. The Defendant, from July 2010 to July 2016, 2017, was the president of the daily newspaper B (the former trade name was “C”) in the area south of Gwangju, and was actually operated by the Defendant.
1) When the Defendant was faced with financial difficulties in the course of the operation of B, the Defendant had been willing to receive money and valuables under the pretext of advertising fees from the victim, who operated a construction intermediate waste disposal company in the name of the F Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “F”), from Naju City, by gathering a minor error in the F’s site of waste disposal, and by threatening the victim to report it to the relevant agencies or to news articles as if he were to be examined.
On July 2015, the Defendant instructed G, H, and I, a reporter of B, to thoroughly gather and report environmental problems in the F’s business site. G, H, and I, according to the Defendant’s direction, found the F’s business site and found the victim at the F’s business site, and carried out on the field coverage, such as opening a business site on a loan to confirm the victim’s occurrence of environmental civil petitions, and posting a photograph, and the victim was frighted to think that the victim may suffer disadvantages, such as administrative disposition, if he/she publishes a small tamp, or informs the relevant agency thereof.
On July 28, 2015, the Defendant: (a) demanded the victim, who was frightened in the J of Gwangju, to drinked, as seen above, to “F advertisement fee to B; and (b) continued to gather environment-related coverage for the purpose of gathering frightful wrongs by mobilization of the reporters belonging to B, without considering the Defendant’s requirements; (c) received KRW 2.2 million from the victim of drinking, who was frighted, to the K bank account in the name of B around July 28, 2015, to transfer the 2.2 million won to the K bank account in the name of B.
2) The Defendant’s contribution to the Victim L group is financially financial in the course of operation B.