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The Defendants are not guilty. The summary of the judgment of innocence against the Defendants is published.
Reasons
1. The summary of the facts charged is the representative of E Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “E”) located in Gangnam-gu Seoul Metropolitan Government D, and Defendant B is the director general of E’s editing bureau.
Defendant
A was informed on February 2, 2016 that F gave money and valuables to H, the president of the G organization, in the I election, in order to receive the success of the J party.
At the time, the competition between L preliminary candidates and M preliminary candidates is difficult to predict the result of the competition because the competition of the 20th National Assembly member election by K of the 20th National Assembly member election is imminent. Therefore, when reporting a specific candidate, the media company should objectively verify the facts, and fairly and accurately report.
However, upon receiving the above information from F, the Defendants decided to report as if L, not H, received money and valuables related to Gongcheon, and Defendant A had F notify F of the fact that money and valuables were provided to the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office on March 15, 2016, and had Defendant B prepare an article.
Accordingly, Defendant B: “N” as the title “N,” “I paid to a member of the active duty service National Assembly for the success of Do Council members; “In the course of the I election, the candidate paid 15 p.m. for a member of active duty service and was investigated into voluntary withdrawal to the prosecution on 15 p.m.”; “OC (60) sent 24 million won to the P Council members (47) of the same political party in the I election, who were sent 24 million won to the P Council members of the same political party in the I election, and was found to have the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office on his own,” which included the following contents: “I received money and valuables related to Do Council members from LF and reported it to the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office on March 16, 2016.” The article was examined by Defendant A and posted on the Internet homepage around 15 p.m.
(hereinafter referred to as the “instant article”). However, facts F provide H with the said article.