Gwangju Legal Consultation Case | Clearing the Injustice of an Alleged Multibillion-Won Embezzlement Through a Gwangju Legal Consultation

The Daeryun Gwangju attorney undertook to understand the client's case through a careful legal consultation.

The client, who was serving as a director of a company based in Gwangju, was one day accused of internal embezzlement.

This was because an internal employee who was already under investigation after being accused of embezzlement claimed that the client was also an accomplice.

Greatly disconcerted by the sudden accusation, the client was referred for a legal consultation in Gwangju and came to Daeryun.

In the embezzlement consultation the client requested, because the amount in question reached several billion won, the matter is punishable not as ordinary embezzlement but under the 🔗Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes.

■ Aggravated punishment of specific property crimes

When a person commits a crime such as fraud, extortion, special extortion, or embezzlement or breach of trust as set out in the Criminal Act, and the gain is 500 million won or more, aggravated punishment is imposed as set out below.

1. When the amount of gain is 5 billion won or more: imprisonment for life or for not less than five years
2. When the amount of gain is 500 million won or more but less than 5 billion won: imprisonment for a definite term of not less than three years

Through the Gwangju consultation, the client first asserted that, over nearly thirty years building expertise in a single field, he had never had any financial issues or any other problems in his working life.

The client had worked at his current company for more than twenty years, and his abilities had been recognized, allowing him to rise from an ordinary employee to an executive.

Through the Gwangju consultation, testimony from colleagues was submitted as evidence, indicating that the client was diligent and had no prior acquaintance with the employees accused of embezzlement.

Through the Gwangju consultation, the client asserted that he had no relationship of personal trust with the alleged accomplices.

In the case of creating a slush fund, if even one of the accomplices discloses it, all of them bear significant legal liability, so such offenses are ordinarily carried out among people who share a deep relationship of personal trust.

The client emphasized, however, that he worked in a different department and had no acquaintance whatsoever with the accomplices, so it was difficult to regard him as an accomplice.

Through the Gwangju consultation, the client emphasized that there was no specific evidence connecting him to the embezzlement.

The claim that the client was an accomplice in the embezzlement rested only on statements unsupported by objective evidence.

Through the Gwangju consultation, the client argued that an embezzlement charge involving several billion won could not be established on the basis of abstract statements alone.

If, like the client, you have become caught up in a corporate embezzlement charge, establishing your innocence through a professional legal consultation is the safest course.

Daeryun assists clients in their defense through legal consultations available every day, around the clock.

If you find yourself in a difficult situation and need a 🔗legal consultation, you are welcome to visit the Daeryun Gwangju office at any time.