Couple who borrowed the name of a pharmacist to defraud ``5.4 billion won''...Sentence becomes heavier in appeal court

A couple who operated a pharmacy in someone else's name for 13 years without a pharmacist's license and defrauded 5.4 billion won (approximately 600 million yen), including medical expenses, received a harsher sentence in the appeals court than in the original court.
Ta. On the 14th, South Korea's Suwon High Court ruled that Suspect A, a wife in her 50s, and her husband, Suspect B, in their 60s, were charged with violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specified Economic Crimes (fraud).
The original court's verdict was overturned and they were sentenced to two and three years in prison, respectively. Previously, the court had limited the couple's crime period to just four years and three months from 2015 to 2019, citing insufficient evidence from the prosecution.
He admitted the crime and was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison at the trial court. However, in the appeals court, based on the same business contract drawn up by the defendants and Mr. C, a pharmacist, the couple had been operating a pharmacy since 2006.
An appeals court ruled that the company had been operating the facility in a manner that increased the severity of the sentence. From January 2006 to June 2019, the couple owned a property owned by Suspect A's biological brother, Pyeongtaek (Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do).
) It is suspected that he opened and operated a pharmacy in a building in the city under the name of Mr. C, a pharmacist in his 80s, and defrauded the National Health Insurance Corporation of approximately 5.4 billion won (approximately 600 million yen), including medical expenses. held
Ru. The investigation revealed that instead of using Mr. C's name, the couple periodically paid a portion of their earnings through Mr. C's account.
The appellate court stated, ``When we look at the circumstances, means, and methods of the defendants' crimes, the nature of the crime is extremely high.''
"This is not good," the court ruled, "The period of this crime was actually 13 years and 5 months, and the amount of money stolen was a huge sum of 5.4 billion won (approximately 600 million yen)."
Mr. C, who lent his name to Suspect A and his wife, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison, suspended for 3 years, at the appeals court.
. According to Article 6 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, if you lend your pharmacist's license to someone who is not a pharmacist, you may be sentenced to imprisonment for up to 5 years or a fine of up to 50 million won (approximately 5.5 million yen).
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