Defendant

A Imprisonment of two years and six months and fine of 3,000,000 won, and Defendant B shall be punished by imprisonment of six months, respectively.

Defendant

A above.

Punishment of the crime

Defendant

A is a public official of Grade VII in local tax affairs, from January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017, in order to support farmers who discontinue items deemed difficult to continue agriculture by entering into an FTA (FTA) at the residents support center in Yongcheon-gu, Incheon to take charge of “the selection of persons eligible for subsidies for discontinuance of FTA damage compensation projects and the payment of subsidies” in 2015 and from July 1, 2017 to November 2, 2018.

Defendant

B is the chairperson of the head of the Tong Council in Yongcheon-si, and the person who has received subsidies for discontinuance of business by applying for closure of his/her land to the defendant A in relation to the "2016 FTA damage compensation project" implemented by the residents support center in Yongcheon-si.

1. The sole crime committed by Defendant A;

A. On June 2015, the public official in charge or the head of Dong, etc. knew that in relation to the project for the discontinuance of the FTA in 2015, the application for the payment of the closure subsidy and the accompanying documents, etc. in relation to the project for the discontinuance of the FTA at the Residents Support Center in Yongcheon-si, Seoul, would not separately confirm the site of the closure subsidy, and would receive the closure subsidy by submitting a false application for the closure subsidy.

No person shall receive any subsidy or indirect subsidy granted by the State to create or provide financial assistance by fraudulent or other illegal means.

Nevertheless, on June 19, 2015, the Defendant submitted to the above Center an application for subsidies for discontinuance of business that the Defendant’s wife E cultivated 400 shares from the land located in Yongcheon-si F in Yongcheon-si, the Defendant owned by the Defendant and closed down Do farming houses, such as digging up Dopodo, etc., and submitted the said Center to be selected as the eligible recipient of subsidies for discontinuance of business on August 17, 2015.

However, the defendant was planted on the above land.