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A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for one year.
However, the execution of the above punishment shall be suspended for two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.
Reasons
Punishment of the crime
1. The omission of descriptions in the facts charged for the violation of the National Sports Promotion Act (Gambling, etc.) and the establishment of gambling space was obvious and corrected;
No person, other than the Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation and an entrusted business entity, shall issue sports betting tickets or similar things (including the issuance by means of information and communications networks) and provide property or financial benefits to persons who win the betting results.
B as an employee of the C organization, a violent crime group, established the F Call Center, which is an illegal sports soil site, in the Cheongyang Do, China-do, Cheongyang shopping D, in order to manage a total of 40 illegal sports soil site. G under the direction of B, upon receiving the instructions from B, managed the operation and funds of the above “F” center, and the Defendant, at H and the above call center, continued to participate in the role of managing the employees, and paying back and returning money for gambling.
From August 8, 2014 to May 24, 2016, the Defendant, along with B, G, H, etc., took charge of the management of employees including I, J, and K at the above call center office, approval of the website members' entry, points shock and exchange, adjustment of dividend rates, game notice, entry, etc., and operated the site illegally by receiving a total of KRW 11,383,35,06 for gambling money from members L’s bank account, etc. to the maximum of KRW 5,000 to KRW 1,383,35,066 each time from members to the maximum of KRW 1,000 to KRW 1,00,000,000 for gambling money. The Defendant, upon paying a certain amount of points in accordance with the dividend rate, made up in advance to members who correctly predicted the outcome of the domestic and overseas sports game or of the result of “private bridge” game, etc., was operating the site in a way to recover the above gambling money from members.
Accordingly, the Defendant is not a Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation or an entrusted business entity in collusion with B, G, and H.