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Non-disabled judo athletes who were falsely diagnosed with vision and participated in the Paralympic Games were prosecuted by the prosecution.
The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor's Office (Prosecutor Chung Kyung-jin), who was a non-disabled person, issued a vision certificate based on the criteria for athletes with disabilities, and then charged 13 judo athletes who participated in the international competition as the national team for visual impairment. ) Revealed.
One national representative who led the crime was arrested and prosecuted.
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.
Subsequently, Mr. A selected them as the national athletes for visually impaired judo and participated in international judo competitions such as the 2014 Incheon Asian Paralympic Games, 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, and 2018 Jakarta Asian Paralympic Games.
Eleven out of 13 athletes won gold medals and won prizes, each receiving 1.3 million to 42 million won worth of government rewards.
It was revealed that Mr. A was involved in all three competitions and collected about 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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