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[Defendant A] The defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for six months and a fine of five million won.
The above fine shall not be paid by the defendant.
Reasons
Punishment of the crime
Defendant
A is the owner of the "E" business located on the Da and 2nd floor in Chungcheongnam-gun, Hongsung-gun, and Defendant B is the owner of the building at the above business.
1. Defendant A operated the above E from July 19, 2017 to August 30, 2017, and received KRW 100,000 from customers who found the above E, and let female employees, such as F, engage in sexual traffic, thereby arranging sexual traffic.
2. Defendant B, upon receipt of notice that E was provided as a place of sexual traffic around May 18, 2016 and around February 15, 2017, the Defendant provided a building with knowledge that E was used as a place of sexual traffic and provided a broker for sexual traffic, without taking any measures, to A, who introduced G, the former owner of the business, around July 17, 2017, as a deposit of KRW 10 million, monthly rent of KRW 880,00 (including an additional tax) and provided a building with knowledge that it was used as a place of sexual traffic.
Summary of Evidence
1. Defendant A’s legal statement
1. A protocol concerning the interrogation of the suspect against the defendant B by the prosecution;
1. Statement made by the police with regard to F;
1. On-site photographs and non-control reports;
1. Police seizure records;
1. Three copies of deposit transactions and lease contract;
1. Determination as to the assertion of Defendant B and defense counsel in one copy of the investigation report (related to the notification of the owner of the building)
1. The summary of the assertion was that the Defendant was notified that the second floor among the buildings of the first and third floor underground (hereinafter “the instant building”) located in Chungcheongnam-gun, Hong-gun, Hong-gun, and that the second floor is used as a sexual traffic place, before leasing the said building to A, and thus, the Defendant did not provide A with the said building even though he was aware of the fact that A, a new lessee, is engaging in sexual traffic business in the instant building.
2. Comprehensively taking account of the following circumstances revealed by the evidence revealed earlier, the Defendant operated with the same internal facility.
In 2016 to 2017, different lessees were discovered by engaging in the business of arranging sexual traffic on the second floor of the building in this case.