Defendant

A Imprisonment for one year, and each of the defendants B and C shall be punished by imprisonment for ten months.

except that from the date of this judgment.

Punishment of the crime

Defendant

A and C are candidates for the 7th simultaneous local elections (hereinafter referred to as “local elections in the year 2018”) that are scheduled to take place on June 13, 2018, and for the election district of members of the Seosan City Council (hereinafter referred to as “election district of members of the Seosan City Council”) that is scheduled to take place on June 13, 2018.

No person shall offer, declare an intention to offer, or promise to offer money, goods, entertainment, other property benefits, or public or private positions to a person who intends to become a candidate or a candidate, with the intention of making another person not to become a candidate or having another person who becomes a candidate resign in an election, and shall not receive such benefit or position or accept a manifestation of an intention to offer such benefit or position.

1. Defendant A, B, and B had Defendant A gather money for the purpose of having C, a candidate for the election district of Seosan City Council members scheduled to run in the election district of Seosan City, which is scheduled to run, not to run for the local election in 2018.

Accordingly, Defendant A prepared a cash of KRW 10 million to be delivered to C in return for influence and delivered it to Defendant B, and Defendant B delivered KRW 10 million in cash to Defendant B under the pretext of asking for a candidate to C within the J 7 passenger car of Defendant B who was stopped in the vicinity of Seosan-si H on January 26, 2018.

As a result, in collusion, Defendant A and B provided money to a person who wishes to be a candidate for the purpose of not being a candidate for the election district of the Western City Council member in 2018.

2. Defendant C received KRW 10 million from the above B, as described in paragraph 1, around January 26, 2018, around 19:00, around Seosan-si H, Seosan-si.

As a result, Defendant C received money in return for not being a candidate for the election district in the Seosan City Assembly member in the local election in 2018.

Summary of Evidence

1. The Defendants’ statements are written in the first trial protocol.