Former lawmaker Hong Moon-jong, accused of embezzling about 7.5 billion won in private tuition fees, is present at the first trial sentence held at the Seoul Central District Court on the 1st. Reporter Park Jong-min-Hong Moon-jong, a former Liberal Korean Party member (currently the People’s Power), who served as the chairman of the Private Academy Foundation, embezzled billions of won, served as a member of the National Assembly and received bribes, was sentenced to imprisonment at the first trial.
The 21st Division of the Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Agreement (President Judge Kim Mi-ri) was sentenced to 3 years in prison for embezzlement, as well as one year in prison for bribery charges under the Certain Economic Crimes Aggregated Punishment Act.4 Sentenced to years. Rep. Hong’s bribery crime was a crime committed while in office as a member of the National Assembly, and was sentenced to separate sentences from other crimes in accordance with the Public Office Election Act.
When former Congressman Hong served as the chairman and president of the Gyeongmin Academy of the Private Academy in 2012, he embezzled 6.7 billion won worth of money, including spending 2.4 billion won in Kyungmin Academy and Kyungmin University as if it were a calligraphy fund for the establishment of the Kyungmin University Museum for personal use. I get a charge.
In addition, there is a charge (a criminal evacuation teacher) who, in the name of the representative, was investigated and punished as if he were an actual operator after being cracked down by the police while running the Gyeongmin International Christian School without approval for establishment.
After being elected as a member of the National Assembly, charges of receiving a lease of 50 million won worth of profits were added by receiving a luxury limousine vehicle for 15 months from June 2013 to September 2014 in the name of exerting influence against government ministries. In addition, he was charged with receiving 10 million won worth of Gongjin Party and 20 million won in cash along with a legislative request.
yunhap news-Regarding the allegations of embezzlement by former lawmaker Hong, the court judged that he had embezzled about 5.7 billion won by acknowledging that a significant part of the prosecution was true. He also convicted of the charges of being a refugee teacher, saying, “It is true that the actual operator of Kyungmin International Christian School is former lawmaker Hong Moon-jong, and teacher behavior against Kyungmin University staff is recognized.”
However, among the charges related to bribery, only the charges of receiving a limousine vehicle were found guilty, and for the rest of the charges, he was acquitted by saying that job relevance was not recognized or that the charges were not proven.
The court said, “The property of the academy and school that should have been used only for the specified purpose was transferred as if it were personal property. In particular, the portion of the Kyungmin University school expenses account fund was deducted from billions of won, which should have been used for students, and was used for personal debt repayment. He pointed out that the guilt is very bad for the students who paid the tuition.
On the contrary, it was said that △there was no personal interest in some cases of embezzlement, and △the fact that there was no history of being punished for a homogeneous crime or exceeding the fines was taken into account as advantageous circumstances.
In addition, while sentenced to jail, there was no fear of escape and there was no legal restraint against Congressman Hong in order to ensure an opportunity to fight through appeal.
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