Pohang Law Office | Pohang Attorney Recommendation, Defended the Client's Charge of Aiding and Abetting a Narcotics Offense

The client was unfairly charged with a 🔗violation of the Narcotics Control Act.

The client, who resided in Pohang, had been close friends with the co-defendant since middle school.

One day, the client received a request from the co-defendant to pick up a secondhand-trade item on the co-defendant's behalf.

Because the co-defendant was working a part-time job, the client, without any suspicion, received a mysterious bag from a man in downtown Pohang and handed it to the co-defendant.

When the client asked what kind of bag it was, the co-defendant avoided the question, saying that it was nothing.

Around the time the matter had faded from memory, the client received the shocking news that the co-defendant had been arrested on a charge of transporting narcotics, along with a notice to undergo a police investigation on a charge of aiding and abetting a narcotics offense.

It turned out that the mysterious bag the co-defendant had asked the client to receive contained narcotics.

The co-defendant stated that the client had helped a narcotics courier, and accordingly the client came under investigation on a charge of aiding and abetting a narcotics offense.

As with the charge faced by the client who came to the Pohang attorney, even if a person did not directly use or distribute narcotics, that person may be punished for the crime of aiding and abetting a narcotics offense if he facilitated the process of carrying out such acts.

■ Narcotics Control Act Article 60 (Penal Provisions)

A person who falls under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years or by a fine not exceeding 100 million won.

1. A person who provides another with a place, facility, equipment, funds, or means of transportation for the purpose of committing a prohibited act related to narcotics or psychotropic drugs
2. A person who sells, arranges the sale of, receives, possesses, owns, uses, manages, dispenses, administers, or provides psychotropic drugs or psychotropic drugs containing such substances, or who issues a prescription specifying psychotropic drugs
3. A person who manufactures, imports, or exports psychotropic drugs or psychotropic drugs containing such substances, or who possesses or owns them for such purpose

The Pohang attorney made arguments regarding the establishment of aiding and abetting by the client.

"Aiding and abetting" refers to an act that has a close connection to the realization of a crime, such as knowing of a person's preparations for or commission of an offense and supporting that offense.

That is, for an act of aiding and abetting to be established, there must be "intent" with respect to that act.

The Daeryun Pohang attorney argued that, because the client was not aware of the offense, his conduct could not be regarded as constituting an act of aiding and abetting.

The client in this Pohang case had merely delivered the goods at the request of a friend, who was a non-indicted person, had no knowledge whatsoever of the contents, and received no financial benefit of any kind.

Rather, the client had been used by the friend, and it appears that the friend, even now, has implicated the client in order to cooperate with the police investigation and reduce his own sentence.

For the client who came to the Pohang attorney office, the Daeryun Pohang attorney argued that there was no suspicion of crime against the client, focusing on these grounds.

The case above is the account of a client who, facing a wrongful accusation, resolved the matter with the assistance of a Daeryun Pohang attorney.

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