The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of the former president of an apparel company who had been acquitted on charges of embezzlement due to the application of plea bargaining, and was sentenced to two years and ten months in prison. ..
Defendant Daisuke Koda (44), a former president of an apparel company in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, was acquitted on charges of embezzlement for business purposes, alleging that he had embezzled the company's sales of more than 33 million yen.
Plea bargaining was applied in this case, and it was disputed whether the statements of former employees who escaped prosecution in return for cooperating with the prosecution's investigation were credible.
The first trial said, "Among the statements that do not have objective support, it is necessary to take a very cautious stance when making a decision." I sentenced him to a prison sentence.
Regarding the statement by the judicial transaction, the second trial supported the idea of the first trial, and considering that about 200 million yen that the former president had settled and saved was seized by the investigative agency and returned to the company. 1 The trial decision was revoked and the sentence was imprisoned for 2 years and 10 months.
Although the former president had appealed, Atsushi Yamaguchi, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court's First Small Court, decided to dismiss, and the prison sentence of the second trial was finalized.