A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for six months.

However, the execution of the above sentence shall be suspended for a period of two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

On February 9, 2017, the Defendant was sentenced to one and half years of imprisonment and two years of suspended execution at the Daegu District Court, and the judgment was finalized on February 17, 2017.

E is a person operating a Korean branch of a company of “F” with its head office in the United Kingdom, and G and H are those in charge of investment lectures, membership management, civil petition management, etc. under E’s instruction, and the Defendant is a person who gives investment incentives to ro investors on the I’s revenue structure, etc., by receiving instructions from investors, and the J is a person who gives investment lectures to investors at a place where investors gather under the direction of “ro E and H, etc.,” and the J serves as a person who receives investments from investors and transfers money to E, etc.

On April 16, 2014, the Defendant conspired with E, G, J, etc. to share the above role and to obtain investment money from investors, and subsequently presented an investment explanation meeting stating that “I has its head office in the UK, and if it invests a certain amount in a company that creates enormous income through the development of contents with its global branch, it would have paid fees and earnings and send it to the European cruise tour.”

However, in fact, the business method of the above "I" was a structure that makes it impossible to pay the profits initially promised to the members unless the members continuously increase because it is required to pay the investment funds paid by the new member at least the 320,000 won to the members by means of payment of the subscription fee of at least 320,000 won, and by means of multi-level recruitment of new members upon the recommendation of the member who has joined the membership, the new member is required to pay the investment funds paid by that member at least the 10th level of higher than the first member who has