Defendants are not guilty.

1. Summary of the facts charged

A. Defendant A, from January 31, 201 to January 12, 2015, served as the vice-chairperson of the Victim G Association, a corporation located in Seocho-gu Seoul Metropolitan Government (hereinafter “Association”) from around January 31, 201 to around January 12, 201 as a senior public official of the former Ministry of Environment (the head of the ECE) and managed overall tasks such as the selection of contracting companies for construction or service projects ordered by the Association, and the disbursement of funds.

1) Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources in the Course of Occupational Embezzlements (hereinafter “Act”) is only applicable.

(3) The Defendant: (a) paid the deposit for empty containers to consumers on a deposit basis; (b) paid the deposit for empty containers to consumers only for public relations activities to improve the rate of recovery of empty containers; (c) support for the installation of empty containers and storage and collection stations; (d) research and development of methods to efficiently recover and recycle empty containers; and (e) preservation of empty container deposits in the previous year; and (c) other activities to preserve the environment preservation. Nevertheless, on March 16, 2011, the Defendant used the outstanding empty container deposits in the foregoing Association for golf expenses for the purpose of the Victim Association; (b) provided that the amount equivalent to KRW 407,00 as if they were used for other environmental preservation activities; and (c) provided that the amount of the outstanding empty container deposit was arbitrarily consumed at KRW 107,00 from February 10, 2011 to December 30, 2014; and (d) provided that the Defendant provided KRW 401,759,464 won in total on behalf of the Defendant’s 2.