30s Agency Employee Sentenced for Smuggling Dozens of Mobile Phone Devices

An employee at a mobile phone agency was sentenced to 9 months in prison for stealing and selling dozens of unopened mobile phones and embezzling mobile gift certificates worth tens of millions of won from customers. Photo is unrelated to specific expressions in the article.

[Asia Economy Reporter Intern Lee Gyehwa] The court sentenced a mobile phone agency employee to 9 months in prison for embezzling dozens of unopened mobile phones and selling them to secondhand dealers, as well as stealing customers' mobile gift certificates worth tens of millions of won. The court imposed the prison sentence because he shifted responsibility onto the victims and did not take any measures to restore the damages.

The Ulsan District Court Criminal Division 5 (Judge Han Yuno) announced on the 13th that it sentenced A (33) to 9 months in prison on charges of breach of trust. The court also ordered A to pay 45.86 million won to the compensation applicants.

A was charged with embezzling 27 unopened mobile phones worth 38.25 million won while working at a mobile phone agency in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, from August 2019 to January 2021, and selling them on the market.

A accessed the computer system and deceived the company by using personal information of an acquaintance B and others to make it appear as if B and others had changed the mobile phone devices, then sold the devices to secondhand distributors.

Additionally, from January to March 2020, A downloaded mobile gift certificates provided as services to customers 233 times, embezzling a total of approximately 9.48 million won.

The court stated, "Although the defendant repaid part of the embezzled amount, he caused property damage exceeding 40 million won to the victims through a planned crime," and added, "His attitude of shifting responsibility onto the victims during the investigation shows the severity of the crime, making a harsh punishment inevitable."

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