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Defendants shall be punished by imprisonment for ten months.
However, with respect to the defendant B, it shall be for two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.
Reasons
Punishment of the crime
1. Defendant A, around 2004, became aware of Nonindicted Party F at the time when he was working in a sales promotional company called “E” located in Chungcheongnam-dong, North Korea.
Around May 2010, the Defendant had a plan to operate an illegal sports gambling site (G) in the Republic of Korea, and had been proposed by F to pay monthly pay back to the Republic of Korea. In response, the Defendant left the Republic of Korea to the Republic of the Philippines, with the intention of promoting the establishment and management of the said site.
According to F’s instructions, the Defendant: (a) selected gambling web programs; (b) opened gambling programs; (c) opened computers necessary to operate gambling sites; and (d) opened the Internet and Internetphones; and (c) opened the said illegal sports gambling sites; (b) followed up money transfer to money; (c) sent to money exchange; (d) answers to customer centers; (e) managing games; and (e) managing members.
No person, other than the Korea Sports Promotion Corporation and an entrusted business entity, shall provide goods or property benefits to persons who correctly predicted the result by issuing sports betting tickets or similar things.
Nevertheless, the Defendant, as above, in collusion with F from May 18, 2010 to October 2, 2010, recruited members of the said site in collusion with F, and exchanged them into electronic money in exchange for money from members of the said site through text messages, etc. from the Republic of Korea, from May 18, 2010 to from the point of view of: (a) from October 2, 2010 to from the point of view of operating the said site in a manner similar to KK, which is the online site designated by JJ as the seller of sports promotion in Korea on October 2, 2010.