The client was invited by her boyfriend to work abroad, and she left for China, where she joined a voicemail fraud organization with her boyfriend, who was the ringleader, and acted as an agent. Later, her accomplices were arrested, and the Suwon District Public Prosecutor's Office requested an arrest warrant based on the client's alleged membership in a criminal organization and activities in a criminal organization. The client sought the assistance of Ongang Law Firm from the beginning of the investigation, and Ongang Law Firm also assisted her in the 'warrant substantive examination' to determine whether or not the court should arrest her. ■ Case Issues Although the client did not have a clear awareness that he was engaging in a voicemail fraud, he admitted that he should have suspected that he was engaging in a voicemail fraud at the time of the crime. However, in terms of the legal aspect of the 'scope of liability' of the accused, the following issues were raised: ➊ in the case of membership and activity in a criminal organization, whether the client could be considered to have joined and acted as a member of a criminal organization given that the organization in this case did not qualify as a 'criminal organization'; ➋ the limitation of the scope of liability depending on the time of the client's participation in the crime and his contribution to the crime; and

The client was charged with being a voice fraud call center agent after he called victims posing as an investigator from a voice fraud call center established by a Korean ethnic group leader and had them forward the money to a collector. The case involved the arrest and detention of the mastermind, who was in China, followed by the arrest and detention of the members of the organization who worked with him. All of the members of the phishing organization were arrested except for our client, and in order to avoid imprisonment, our client came to Ongang Law Firm, a law firm specializing in voice phishing, to help him obtain a suspended sentence. In this case, the client was looking for a law firm specializing in voice phishing to help him avoid imprisonment and to obtain a suspended sentence. ■ Case Issues In recent years, the level of punishment for forwarders and withdrawers, which are subordinate offenses in voice phishing cases, has increased, and unless a settlement is reached with the victims, they are sentenced to imprisonment. Therefore, it was common for the client to be detained during the investigation or trial.