The client had no intention or ability to sell the goods in the first place, but as he was struggling to make ends meet, he posted articles selling goods on Naver's Used Nara Café to secure cash, and extorted payment for the goods from the victims who contacted him. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office requested an arrest warrant based on these alleged fraudulent facts. The client came to our firm in connection with the 'warrant substantive examination' to determine whether the court should arrest him. ■ Case Issues ➊ The client did not have a distinct residence until the time of his arrest; ➋ The case was a serious one, with hundreds of victims, so the client was concerned about flight and evidence destruction; and ➌ There was no settlement with the victims at all. If the victims were not reimbursed at all, there was a high probability that they would be imprisoned, so a settlement was necessary. Law Firm

The client operated a coworking space and had a lease agreement with the complainant. The complainant did not move his residence after the lease expired and did not pay the landlord for mail storage after the lease expired. Nevertheless, the complainant accused the client of embezzlement, alleging that the client kept the mail sent to the complainant's address after the lease expired and refused to return the mail after receiving the complainant's request to return the mail. ■ Issues Whether to terminate the lease agreement between the client and the complainant, whether to settle the costs of the complainant's relocation and mail storage, whether to recognize the client's status as a custodian in connection with the embezzlement offense, whether to recognize the intent to illegally obtain, and whether the accused had specific notice of harm in connection with the blackmail offense. Resolution of the Issues Ongang Law Firm's defense team won the case.

Our client was charged with fraud for calling victims posing as investigators from a voice-phishing call center set up by an ethnic Korean mastermind and directing them to forward money to collectors. The case involved the arrest and detention of the mastermind, who was in China, and then the subsequent arrest and detention of the members of the organization who worked with him. All of the members of the voice phishing organization were detained except for our client, and our client came to us to avoid imprisonment, so he pleaded with us to help him get a suspended sentence. In this case, our client was asked to come to Law Offices of Onkang to help him avoid imprisonment and to be sentenced to probation. ■ Case Issues In recent years, the level of punishment for forwarders and withdrawal agents, which are the lower-level agents in voice phishing cases, has been increased, and unless an agreement is reached with the victims, they will be sentenced to imprisonment. Therefore, it was necessary to prevent our client from being detained during the investigation or trial process.

The client is a person who left Korea for the United States in the 1990s and lives in the U.S. Recently, while preparing various documents to return to Korea to spend his old age, the client learned that the prosecutor's office had a case pending against him (interim disposition due to the suspect's unknown whereabouts). The client came to our firm because he was worried that he might encounter problems during or after his entry into the country due to the pending fraud, forgery, and forgery of documents case. The case is that the client forged a lease agreement and provided it to the complainant, and then extorted money as collateral for the lease deposit. Our lawyers consulted with the client, who lives in the United States, via video call to confirm the details of the case, and after confirming that the handwriting on the lease agreement was not the client's handwriting at all, our lawyers had the handwriting examined. Based on this, we searched for the contact information of the complainant, called the complainant, and explained the contents of the case. The complainant said that he did not want to be punished.