A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and six months.

278,050,000 won shall be additionally collected from the defendant.

The additional collection charge shall be equivalent to the above additional collection charge.

Punishment of the crime

The Defendant is a person who, from November 201 to December 2015, works as a secretary at a certified judicial scrivener E office located in Seocheon-gu Seoul Special Metropolitan City Office No. 205, Seocheon-gu Special Metropolitan City Office No. 205 and handles legal affairs, such as personal rehabilitation.

No person, other than an attorney-at-law, shall receive or promise to receive money, valuables, entertainment or other benefits, and deal with legal affairs comprehensively delegated, such as legal counseling services or preparation of legal documents, with respect to non-contentious cases.

Although the Defendant and E are not attorneys-at-law, the Defendant received money from clients in exchange for fees, and dealt with legal affairs, such as personal rehabilitation and bankruptcy, by comprehensively processing a series of business affairs, including preparation and submission of documents, correction of documents, and delivery, on behalf of the clients. The Defendant agreed to receive KRW 800,000 per month from the Defendant with well-known knowledge of the above circumstances that enable the Defendant to deal with legal affairs, such as personal rehabilitation and bankruptcy, using his/her own name, and in return, receive KRW 80,000 per month from the Defendant.

Accordingly, around November 15, 2010, the Defendant and E agreed to perform all the personal rehabilitation affairs of the clients F and F at the above E judicial scrivener office, and received KRW 800,000 as a commission fee, and, after preparing an individual rehabilitation application, list of creditors, list of assets, list of revenue and expenditure, statement, written repayment plan, written correction plan, etc., and submitting related notice to the court, and related notice to the court, as a whole, handle the legal affairs such as personal rehabilitation and bankruptcy from December 15, 2015 to December 15, 2015, the Defendant and E received KRW 545,150,000 in total as the commission fee from the clients.

Accordingly, the defendant is not an attorney-at-law in collusion with E, and the law on the case of non-payment.