40s Woman Sentenced to 30 Years for Murdering and Secretly Burying Stock Co-Investor

A woman in her 40s who killed and abandoned her joint stock investor was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The Supreme Court's 2nd Division (Presiding Justice Jo Jae-yeon) announced on the 8th that it upheld the 30-year prison sentence in the appeal trial of Ms. A, who was charged with murder and concealment of a corpse.

Ms. A was prosecuted for killing Mr. B, her joint stock investor, in a parking lot in Geumjeong-gu, Busan, in April last year and then abandoning the body in a field in Yangsan, Gyeongnam.

Ms. A and Mr. B met through an online stock cafe and invested together. During this process, Ms. A arbitrarily used about 100 million won of Mr. B's investment funds, prompting Mr. B to demand repayment. Ms. A met Mr. B in a temple parking lot in Busan and proposed, "I will give you about 1 to 1.5 million won per month, so please do not come to my house," but when rejected, she strangled Mr. B to death.

When Ms. A was suspected by Mr. B's wife regarding stock transactions, she exhumed the secretly buried body and stamped a false stock contract.

The first trial sentenced Ms. A to life imprisonment, but the second trial reduced the sentence to 30 years, stating, "Although the motive was malicious and premeditated, the method cannot be considered to have reached a cruel and brutal level." The Supreme Court also agreed with the second trial's judgment.

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