Famous Fashion Brand Fitting Model Fined for Clothing Theft

[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] A man in his 30s who was charged with stealing clothes from the designer's office of a fashion brand where he worked as a fitting model and reselling them was sentenced to a fine in the first trial.

According to the legal community on the 19th, Judge Go So-young of the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 25 sentenced A (39) to a fine of 2 million won for theft. Judge Go stated the reason for the sentence, "The defendant took advantage of being a fitting model to steal items over a long period and resold them as secondhand goods for profit," adding, "The nature of the crime is not good."

A was indicted without detention on charges of stealing 89 pieces of clothing from the designer's office of the brand located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, from January 2018 to July last year while working as a fitting model for the famous fashion brand B. It is reported that he had been working as a fitting model for the brand since 2007. Under criminal law, theft is punishable by imprisonment of up to six years or a fine of up to 10 million won. A confessed to all the crimes in court and repaid the full amount of damages, which was taken into consideration, resulting in a relatively light fine.

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