A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for four years.

Criminal facts

From October 1, 2009 to April 26, 2018, the Defendant served as a contracting researcher at the D Center (the head of the Center: C University and University E professor) located in Busan as a contracting researcher at the D Center located in B (the head of the Center) and was in charge of the management and accounting of research costs and operating expenses of the said D Center.

The injured C University Industry-Academic Cooperation Group (hereinafter referred to as the "Industrial Cooperative") is a special corporation established pursuant to Article 25 of the Promotion of Industrial Education and Industry-Academia Cooperation Act, the main purpose of which is to cooperate in industry-academia-research activities, such as industrial consulting, human resources, facilities, equipment, and joint utilization of tangible and intangible resources owned by enterprises, etc., such as the training of human resources following industrial demand and future industrial development, research, development, and commercialization for the creation and dissemination of new knowledge and technology, and the development of technology for industrial enterprises, etc.

The industry-academic cooperation is operated by the F system, which is the self-management program of the industry-academic cooperation in order to manage the research service expenses, etc. received by the C University, in the name of the industry-academic cooperation by paying a card in the name of the industry-academic cooperation to each research institute, and if the professors and researchers of the research institute use the corporate card for the purpose of research expenses, etc., the research expenses, etc. are settled from the account in the name of the above industry-academic cooperation.

1. To recognize ex officio changes in part of the facts charged according to the facts obtained through the examination of evidence to the extent that it is not likely to actually disadvantage the defendant's exercise of his/her right to defense against the violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment,

A. The Defendant settled the insufficient operating expenses of the above Center with the corporate card (G, H) that was paid to the above Center by the industry-academic cooperation foundation, and prepared the so-called “return prevention” form, such as appropriation for other research tasks’ research tasks’ research funds, while preparing the payment for the corporate card exclusively for research expenses.