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Defendants shall be punished by imprisonment for one year.
However, the execution of each of the above penalties for a period of two years from the date this judgment becomes final and conclusive.
Reasons
Punishment of the crime
[Public invitation] A person who is not a national sports promotion corporation and an entrusted business entity shall not engage in an act of offering property or property benefits to those who win the results of the promotion of sports by issuing voting rights or similar things.
Nevertheless, Defendants, E, F, G, H, and I shared their roles with intent to take profits by participating in the business of operating the Internet illegal sports soil site to many and unspecified domestic unspecified persons using the overseas Internet server. E, F, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam prepared an office in the place of the Internet illegal sports soil site and provided the employees who are sent to the above office in Korea, provided with visiting the employees who will be sent to the above office in Korea, and provided a large-scale passbook to be used for the operation of the above gambling site, and manage and dispose of the proceeds deposited in the above gambling site operation account. The Defendants and other accomplices, upon the direction of E and F, conspired to participate in the business of filling and exchanging game money of the above gambling site, sport games schedule and winning results, registration of the bulletin board and customer management.
[2] The Defendants, in collusion with E, F, G, H, I, etc., opened and operated “J (K, L, etc.)” a website for illegal sports discussions using the overseas server in accordance with the above roles as co-offenders, from July 19, 2015 to July 4, 2017 (Defendant A shall be from July 19, 2015 to January 31, 2017; Defendant B shall be from July 5, 2016 to July 4, 2017; and Defendant B shall be from July 5, 2016 to July 4, 2017) in Chinese Cheongdo, Indonesia; and Defendant B shall be provided with cash via the passbook’s account through which many unspecified members adjoining the said website were supplied in Korea.