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A 30-year-old who used billions of company money to purchase expensive game items was sentenced to a heavier sentence in the appeals court.
The 1st Criminal Division (Presiding Judge Baek Seung-yeop) of the Daejeon High Court announced on the 17th (today) that the 39-year-old A, who was charged with violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes, etc.
Mr. A, who was sentenced to two years and six months in prison in the first trial, filed an appeal saying that the sentence was too heavy, but the second trial court only accepted the prosecution's appeal that the sentence was light.
Mr. A, who worked at a mart in Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, operated by Seosan Fisheries Cooperative Federation, is accused of embezzling about 3.26 billion won a total of 121 times from February 2018 to December 31 last year.
Person A, who was in charge of accounting and taxation at the mart, is known to have intercepted the money by making false titles such as the purchase price for equipment and submitting a payment resolution.
It was investigated that Mr. A spent most of the embezzled money to purchase items from the online game 'Lineage'.
Meanwhile, it is reported that Seosan Fisheries Cooperative members, who suffered a net loss of 1.7 billion won due to Mr. A's crime, returned their salaries and bonuses to compensate for the loss.
The court of appeals said, "There is a reason for the prosecution's claim that the sentence was unfair, considering that part of the damage was returned, but 2 billion won was not recovered."
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