TOEIC teacher gets 3 years in prison for cheating because he went to the toilet during exam = Korea

A former language school instructor who became addicted to internet gambling and received up to 5 million won (approximately 550,000 yen) per transaction to hand over TOEIC exam papers has been sentenced to prison.
According to the Korean legal community on the 25th, the Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced Defendant A (27), who was indicted on charges of obstruction of business and violation of the Criminal Proceeds Concealment Prevention Act, to three years in prison and a fine of 76.65 million won.
The 18 test-takers who had asked Defendant A to commit the cheating were each given fines of 7 million to 10 million won (approximately 770,000 to 1.1 million yen).
Defendant A received 1.5 million to 5 million won (approximately 160,000 to 550,000 yen) per session from July 2021 to October 2022 to pass on answers to test takers during the TOEIC exam.
The accused are accused of cheating by reaching the answer sheet on a hidden mobile phone while the client was in the bathroom after taking the exam with them and quickly solving the questions.
The defendant continued to cheat by transferring messages to other people or hiding notes on exam results in the toilet and passing them over. Defendant A, who was a lecturer at a famous language school in Korea, was allowed to use the toilet after the listening test was completed.
He planned the crime with his clients, taking advantage of the fact that he was a novice. Defendant A provided them with answer sheets that matched the marks they desired.
The Korea TOEIC Committee reported Defendant A to the police in November 2022 as a suspected cheater.
The crime came to light when the police investigation revealed that Defendant A was a TOEIC instructor who had graduated from a university in the United States and was employed at a well-known language school in Japan.
Defendant A received criminal proceeds in an account in his cousin's name and then transferred the money to himself, but he used a borrowed name account.
The police uncovered the case, and the test-takers who had asked Defendant A to cheat were arrested one after another. The court stated, "Defendant A advertised that he would help test-takers achieve high scores, and he took considerable measures to attract them.
"The crimes were committed repeatedly over a period of time, with detailed plans in advance and extremely malicious methods," the report said. "The confirmed proceeds of the crime alone exceed 80 million won (approximately 8.82 million yen), and
He also took advantage of the weakness of the examinees, who conspired with him, to borrow gambling money from them." He also explained the reason for the sentence, saying, "The other defendants borrowed money from the examinees for the purpose of finding employment, changing jobs, graduating, transferring, etc.
The perpetrators committed fraudulent acts to obtain high scores on the TOEIC test, and their motives are reprehensible. They have undermined the fairness and credibility of the test and caused good test-takers a sense of deprivation, and the damage they have caused is not insignificant."
The prosecution, which had sought a five-year prison sentence for defendant A, appealed the first-instance sentence, arguing that it was too light. Defendant A was also dissatisfied with the first-instance sentence and appealed.