Former police officer tries to turn prison sentence with false charges

A police officer, who received bribes from an owner of a gambling game room and was sentenced to jail, was caught while trying to coax a broker who sent money to change the verdict of the trial results with false charges.

The 5th Department of the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office (chief prosecutor Cho Ho-kyoung) ordered the broker who sent the bribe to repeat his testimony and indicted a former police officer, 56, with detention for perjury.

The public prosecutor’s office also indicted a broker, 44, without detention for helping to set up the perjury in return for money and valuables from the former police officer.

The police officer was indicted with detention in 2011 for receiving 6 million won in return for covering up a crackdown on gambling game rooms while working in the west Incheon police department in 2009. He was later sentenced to one year in prison and released last September.

He is currently facing charges for trying to manipulate his accomplice after his release when he visited him several times to coax him into saying, “I committed perjury in the trial for accepting the bribe.”

When the accomplice told the police that “I lied during the incident due to the pressed investigations” and altered his statement, the former police officer sued him for perjury.

The Police indicted the accomplice without detention for perjury and sent him to the public prosecutors’ office, and this incident was reported by a news broadcast as ‘Unjust prison life even faced by a police officer.”

However, the public prosecutor’s office conducted further investigations by reviewing the records of the detention center, and secured the accomplices testimony saying he was planning to receive legal fees and living expenses in return for the false confession.

The former police officer has denied all charges relating to receiving bribe and false accusations made by the public prosecutor’s office.

An official from the prosecutors’ office said “He tried to take the matter to the Supreme Court to turn over the results of the guilty verdict by manipulating the witness,” and “We plan to investigate corruptions of government officials.”