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

However, the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for three years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.

Punishment of the crime

Any person who intends to engage in foreign exchange business between the Republic of Korea and a foreign country, such as payment, collection, receipt, etc., shall have capital, facilities and human resources sufficient to conduct foreign exchange business and register such business with the Minister of Strategy and Finance in advance

피고인은 중국 국적의 조선족으로, 위쳇 등을 통해 환전의뢰자들의 의뢰를 받아 대한민국과 중국 간 환전을 해주는 속칭 ‘환치기상’이다.

The defendant, without registering foreign exchange business with his name in the country, when he receives won currency from the money changers in Korea without registering foreign exchange business with his name in the case of less than KRW 700-80,000,000,000 from the Chinese bank account directly managed by the defendant in China to the Chinese bank account designated by him. In the case of a larger amount, the money is transferred to the Chinese bank account in which the money changers designated by the defendant in China, and the next person who was commercialized through merchandise coupon trading, etc. is designated by the person who was designated by the deceased, and the person in the name in the name in question was used for domestic exchange money or remitted the money to the China by pretending the trading transaction, etc., and conspired to transfer the money to the Chinese bank account designated by the money changers, or to conduct foreign exchange business with

On December 29, 2017, at least 17:40, the Defendant received B’s request for exchange, and transferred KRW 100,000,000 to the F Bank account (G) in the name of the Defendant in the name of the F Bank (E) and KRW 50,000,000 from the H Bank account in the name of the Defendant (I) to the H Bank account (H Bank account in the name of the Defendant), and then transferred the remaining amount after deducting a certain amount of fee to the person who was designated by the winners of the name after receiving the request through purchase and sale of merchandise coupons, etc., and the person who was named in the name was sent to J, an accomplice in the Chinese territory through a staff in the Chinese territory.

As can be seen, the Defendant conspireds with the person who was unaware of name, and is a foreign exchange business from October 2, 2017 to September 23, 2019.