Defendant

A and G Imprisonment for 6 months, Defendant B, E and F shall be sentenced to 4 months of imprisonment, Defendant C and D shall be subject to a fine of 7,00,000,000 won.

Punishment of the crime

[Status of Defendants] Q Co., Ltd., R Co., Ltd., S Co., Ltd., Ltd., T, U.S., V Co., Ltd., W Co., Ltd., and X Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Co., Ltd.”) are entrepreneurs engaged in the manufacture and sale of electric wires.

Defendant

A was registered as a representative director of Q from March 2013, and on January 13, 2016, A was registered as a registration director after retirement.

Defendant

B is serving as the head of R from around 2013.

Defendant

C was employed as the president of T from January 2012, and retired on May 31, 2015.

Defendant

D from March 2013 to December 31, 2015, it has been in office as a managing director of U's business headquarters, retired from office on December 31, 2015, and from January 1, 2016, it is in office as a managing director of the headquarters in W as an affiliate.

Defendant

E is working as the representative director of V from December 2001.

Defendant

F from January 201, F was employed as a director of W’s domestic business headquarters sales division from January 201, and retired from office around December 2015.

Defendant

G served as the head of the domestic headquarters of X from January 2013 to August 2013, and is serving as the representative director from August 2013.

[The circumstances leading up to the bidding collusion by the electric cable companies] The Korea Railroad Facilities Corporation (hereinafter “the Corporation of this case”) on May 6, 2013 publicly announced in the KR electronic procurement system on the website of the Corporation that: (a) the electric power line, which is the main power line that supplies high-speed railroad power to use in P and some metropolitan areas; and (b) the steering line that is the auxiliary power line, “P and two kinds of purchase outside the P and four kinds of purchase outside the P and one business operation group for the purpose of purchasing vessel materials (hereinafter “P and four kinds of purchase”); and (c) the P and one business operation group are publicly announced in the electronic procurement system on the website of the Corporation.

Accordingly, around May 6, 2013, the operating officers of each company, such as Q Q Y and Z, R R AA, U AB, V AC, X AD, and W AE (hereinafter “six companies”) shall be the successful bidder, Rura, in order to avoid the blood competition in Q 7th floor in Gangnam-gu Seoul Building.