A group who deliberately caused traffic accidents to claim insurance money and used others' identities to avoid detection when reporting the accidents was sentenced to prison again in the second trial.
According to the court on the 22nd, the Criminal Appeals Division 2-3 of the Seoul Western District Court (Chief Judge Lee Soon-hyung) dismissed the appeals of A (43) and B (28), who were prosecuted for violating the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud and the Resident Registration Act. The court explained the reason for dismissal, stating, "We do not believe the sentencing in the original trial exceeded the reasonable scope of discretion."
They are accused of conspiring with accomplices recruited for insurance fraud to deliberately collide with a passenger car making a left turn while crossing lanes on a road in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi Province, falsely claiming insurance money and receiving settlement payments. They are also charged with providing other people's resident registration numbers to the insurance company to prevent being tracked after the crime was exposed.
From December 2021, they received a total of 35,020,000 KRW in insurance money under the pretext of settlement payments over six occasions and caused the victims to receive insurance payments of 16,135,210 KRW for medical expenses and others.
B also embezzled 27,180,000 KRW under the pretext of settlement payments and 11,207,870 KRW for medical expenses through similar methods five times from January 5 of last year.
The first trial court pointed out that the damage caused by their crimes amounted to about 90 million KRW, stating, "A led most of the crimes and made no effort to recover the damages, and B directly drove the vehicle, so his involvement is not light," sentencing them to one year and six months in prison, respectively.
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