Defendant

A Imprisonment of one year and eight months and fine of eight thousand won, Defendant B’s imprisonment with prison labor for eight months and Defendant C for one year, respectively.

Punishment of the crime

Defendant

A and Defendant B, who were elected as a member of the 7th K Council in the 6th local election implemented on June 4, 2014, are elected public officials in charge of the enactment, amendment, and repeal of municipal ordinances, deliberation and determination of budget, approval of settlement of accounts, and audit and investigation of administrative affairs.

Defendant

C The representative of N online newspapers and O newspaper companies in M, and Defendant D is the director of P, who is a computer and monitoring manufacturer in Busan Metropolitan Government.

1. Defendant A

A. The Defendant, as a member of the K Council, was entitled to exercise the authority to audit the K Accounting Division in charge of the purchase of goods.

At around 14:00 on March 30, 2015, the Defendant, at the Defendant’s office located on the second floor of Q building, issued KRW 4 million from the above D for convenience, such as arranging the supply of office equipment, etc., by stating that “It is necessary to drink a computer even if she was boomed on the upper end of the lower end.”

As a result, the Defendant received a bribe on the intermediation of matters belonging to the duties of other public officials by taking advantage of the position of public officials.

B. On June 20, 2016, the Defendant of the offering of a bribe, which was held on July 4, 2016, engaged in obtaining votes from the members of the City Council who are eligible for voting rights to be elected as the Speaker after completing the registration of the candidate on June 20, 2016, and the latter half of the period, under the circumstance that the member belonging to the L/ Party is in charge of the Speaker and the member belonging to the R/ Party should be in charge of the Vice-Speaker, the Defendant was elected as the candidate for the L/ Party Speaker through the intra-party competition scheduled to be held on June 27, 2016, and was elected as the candidate for the latter half of the K/K to be the chairman by solely going to the election of the Speaker.