Defendant shall be punished by a fine of KRW 1,000,000.

If the defendant does not pay the above fine, 100,000 won shall be one day.

Criminal facts

Some of the facts charged were corrected.

The defendant is the head of the "C Housing Redevelopment and Improvement Project Association" that implements a housing redevelopment and improvement project implemented on the scale of 242,318 square meters in Jung-gu Seoul Special Metropolitan City, Jung-gu, Seoul Special Metropolitan City, and the victim D is the vice-chairperson of the above Emergency Countermeasure Committee.

No person shall defame another person by divulging a false fact openly through an information and communications network with intent to defame the person.

그럼에도 피고인은 2018. 12. 21. 17:55경 성남시 중원구 E 소재 C 주택재개발정비사업조합의 사무실 내에서 업무용 컴퓨터의 문자메시지 전송프로그램을 이용하여 “[F]”라는 제목으로 “(전략)★12월 17일 진행된 법원의 3차 심리에서는 비대위 부위원장 D의 신문절차가 진행되었습니다. D은 재판부 앞에서 비대위를 지원하고 움직이는 외부세력을 이미 2년전에 만났고, 우리 구역 대의원인 G에게 소개받았다고 진술하였습니다. 정말 한탄스러운 일입니다.(후략)”라는 허위의 내용이 기재된 문자메시지를 조합원 약 2,324명에게 전송하였다.

Accordingly, the defendant has damaged the reputation of the victim by divulging public false information through information and communication network with a view to slandering the person.

Summary of Evidence

1. Partial statement of the defendant;

1. Each police statement made to D, H and I;

1. A photograph of the location of a text message (two-fifths of investigative records)

1. Application of Acts and subordinate statutes to a report on investigation (J telephone statement, one right to investigation records, 7 pages);

1. Article 70 (2) of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, Etc. concerning facts constituting a crime and Article 70 of the same Act;

1. Articles 70 (1) and 69 (2) of the Criminal Act for the detention of a workhouse;

1. The defendant guilty of Article 334(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act provides that he/she has transmitted the same text messages as the written in the judgment, but he/she also has the same text messages.