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Seongnam Mayor Eun-Soo Eun, who was sentenced to ineffective election for alleged violation of the Political Fund Act, was able to maintain his mayoral position by the Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court judges that the judgment of the appeal sentence, which sentenced the sentence to be heavier than the first trial, is unfair.

Reporter Im Chan-jong.

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Eunsumi Mayor Seongnam was handed over to the court on charges of illegally providing a rental vehicle and driver from a company in Seongnam.

The first trial was sentenced to a fine of 900,000 won, which is less than 1 million won to maintain the position of the mayor, with some guilty and some innocent.

It violated a provision that prohibits the collection of political funds in an unspecified way, but it is difficult to say that you know that a vehicle has been provided by a particular company.

However, the 2nd trial judged the charges the same as the 1st trial and sentenced a fine of 3 million won to the election invalidity.

However, the Supreme Court ruled today's (9th) that the second trial was wrong, and that the Suwon High Court tried again.

If the second instance did not change the guilty judgment, he could sentence the heavier sentence only if the prosecutor specifically explained why the first sentence was wrong in the appeal process, but it is wrong that the second sentence raised the sentence even if the prosecutor did not do so.

[Judge Jong-Gil Lee/Judgment Court Justice, Public Affairs of the Supreme Court: It is a ruling that the centrifugal sentence (2nd trial) sentenced to a sentence heavier than the 1st trial was unfair even though the prosecutor did not specifically state the reason for the sentence for the guilt.]

The silver market is highly likely to continue to hold a market position in the future, because it is impossible to sentence a sentence heavier than the first trial unless the facts are revealed again after the trial.

Mayor Eun said that he would be grateful to the court and said he would concentrate on correcting it.

(Video coverage: Doowon Yang, Video editing: Jongmi Kim)