All of the public prosecutions against the Defendants are dismissed.

1. Defendant A is an individual who is registered as a business operator under the name of the individual and publishes “D” and “E” online newspapers distributed through the Internet of computers via information and communications networks, and Defendant B is a person who works as the director general of the editing bureau of the above D and E.

[Fact-finding] Defendant A rejected the victim F as the president of Seongdong-gu G Corporation under the Seongdong-gu Office from May 2006 to December 2007, 2007, and resigned from office; Defendant A had been appointed as the president on October 6, 2010 after the head of the Gu’s replacement, and had the victim appointed as the president on October 6, 2010; Defendant D’s issuer, a local newspaper, proposed that “F’s corruption should be jointly covered and reported to the president,” but, around July 2012, Defendant A offered that “H who confirmed the fact-finding should not report the F’s corruption to the relevant person I, who is well aware of the victim and the victim, should not report the F’s corruption, if he/she resigned from office.”

[인사비리에 관한 보도로 인한 명예훼손] 피고인들은 2012. 10. 29.자 E, 2012. 10. 31.자 D을 발행함에 있어, ‘성동구 G공단 F 이사장, 친인척 채용 논란!! 인사비리백화점. 처남 조카 아들까지 특채한 그 때 그 사람’이란 제목 하에 ‘2010년 본인이 채용한 인사문제로 관련 없는 J 이사장이 책임을 지고 물러나고 문제 당사자인 F 이사장이 다시 임명되는 어처구니없는 특혜가 벌어진 것이다.

’, ‘2010년 F 이사장이 재임명되면서 (중략) 특혜의혹이 있는 친인척들은 계약직에서 정규직으로 전환, 바로 진급이 되는 등 그야말로 사돈에 팔촌까지 특별한 혜택을 받아 자리를 꿰찬 사람들’이란 내용의 기사를 게재하여 배포하였다.

However, facts are ① victim F.