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Non-disabled judo athletes who were falsely diagnosed with vision and competed in international competitions for the disabled have been prosecuted by the prosecution.
Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office of Environment and Health Crime (Director Jeong Gyeong-jin) issued a vision certificate based on athletes with disabilities, even though they were non-disabled. ) Revealed.
One official from the national representative who led the crime was arrested.
According to the prosecution,
Mr. A, a member
of the
judo national team, accompanied the athletes to the hospital from July 2014 to February 2018 to undergo a'fake vision test'.
The athletes acted as if they had poor eyesight, such as holding and moving the arm of Mr. A in the hospital, and they tricked the doctor by answering that they could not see any visible objects, and eventually obtained a medical certificate with a visual acuity of 0.1 or less, which is the standard for visually impaired athletes.
Next, Mr. A selected them as the national athletes for visually impaired judo and participated in international judo competitions such as the 2014 Incheon Paralympic Games, Rio Paralympic Games in 2016, and the Asian Paralympic Games in Jakarta in 2018.
Eleven out of 13 athletes won gold medals, winning prizes, and each received 1.3 million to 42 million won worth of government rewards.
It turned out that Mr. A was involved in all three competitions and collected 15 million won in government rewards.
The prosecution prosecuted Mr. A and 13 athletes for violating the law on business obstruction and subsidy management, and emphasized that "in the future, we will take strict actions against serious crimes that undermine social fairness such as corruption in sports."
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