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Supreme Prosecutors' Office Selects Four Exemplary Trial Cases from January

Romance Scam Ring Member in Cambodia

Perjury Exposed, Defendant Indicted and Taken into Immediate Custody

Prosecutors who exposed perjury committed by a romance scam ring member based in Cambodia, and who, through supplementary investigation, uncovered the suspect's previously undetected involvement in voice phishing at the police investigation stage and had him taken into immediate custody, have been selected by the Supreme Prosecutors' Office as an exemplary case.

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On the 24th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that it had selected four cases from trials nationwide in January as exemplary trial cases, recognizing them for actively pursuing courtroom advocacy to realize judicial justice.

Prosecutors Choi Hye-kyung (37th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, currently Head of Criminal Division 5 at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office) and Han Jae-sam (11th bar exam) of the Public Prosecution Division at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office identified a co-conspirator who gave false testimony in a romance scam ring trial by claiming, "I was never approached to participate in the crime." Immediately after the witness examination, the prosecution launched an investigation and, through record analysis and questioning of ring members, confirmed that this witness had been responsible for luring victims but had not been booked at the police investigation stage. On this basis, they not only established perjury but also newly identified a violation of the Act on the Return of Financial Damage from Telecommunications Fraud, and had the defendant indicted and taken into custody directly in the courtroom.

The selected cases also included one in which fraudsters who submitted forged evidence during trial in an attempt to obtain leniency were sternly punished. Prosecutors Koo Jin-mi (39th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute) and Oh Jung-woo (13th bar exam, currently Criminal Division 1) of the Public Prosecution and Litigation Department at the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office revealed, through verification of financial transaction information and other means, that a transfer confirmation document for approximately 150 million won, submitted by a defendant indicted on fraud charges as proof of compensation to the victim, had been forged. An additional charge of private document forgery was brought against the defendant, and the court, in line with the prosecution's sentencing recommendation, imposed a heavy sentence of three years in prison.

In addition, Prosecutors Cha Kyung-ja (38th class, currently Director of the Women and Children’s Human Rights Division at the Ministry of Justice) and Choi Seung-hoon (11th bar exam) of Criminal Division 1 at the Wonju Branch Prosecutors' Office, who actively argued for confiscation in habitual drunk driving cases and secured five court rulings ordering the confiscation of vehicles, were also included among the exemplary cases.