[Litigation] Defendant case violating the Act on Punishment of Violence

Law firm Veat obtained a decision not to indict in cases where defendants were indicted for violation of the Act on Punishment of Violence (coercion, joint injury, joint intimidation, joint refusal to leave).

The wife of the complainant and the defendants are siblings, and the complainant's wife was filing a lawsuit claiming ownership transfer registration cancellation based on inheritance property division regarding the deceased father's land inheritance against herself and the defendants’ mother. The defendants only belatedly learned that the complainant and the complainant's wife had secretly recorded them and submitted the recordings as evidence in the aforementioned civil lawsuit after receiving a civil complaint where the complainant's wife had secretly recorded them without the defendants’ consent.

The defendants visited the complainant's home to protest this, and in the process, they were criminally prosecuted. Veat actively argued that the complainant retaliated and criminally prosecuted the defendants, and that the defendants filed a ‘false’ complaint to disadvantage the defendants who suddenly drafted statements favorable to their mother and detrimental to themselves as the possibility of losing the aforementioned civil lawsuit increased.

Thank you.