Feces Thrown at Front Door... Mastermind Behind 'Private Retaliation Agency' Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

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A group that carried out so-called "private retaliation terror," such as spraying feces on other people's front doors, has received prison sentences in the first trial. The mastermind, who even ordered a spy to covertly infiltrate a subcontractor of Baemin (Baedal Minjok) to steal victims' addresses, was sentenced to three years in prison.

This is reported by Dong Eunyeong.

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A man wearing a mask sprays something on an apartment front door while filming with his smartphone.

This is a scene of so-called "private retaliation agency" work, where someone is paid to spray feces and other substances at a house designated by a client.

Following SBS's exclusive reports in March, it was confirmed that customer addresses leaked from Baemin, a food delivery platform subcontractor, were used for private retaliation, exposing the true nature of the retaliatory group.

A 44-year-old woman surnamed Yeo, who covertly infiltrated as a customer service employee of the Baemin subcontractor following the mastermind's orders and stole around 1,000 pieces of customer personal information in exchange for millions of won per month, was sentenced to two years in prison and taken into custody in the first trial today (October 7).

[Yeo (last April): (Why did you do this?) ... (Do you have no apologies to the victims?) ...]

The court sentenced a 36-year-old man surnamed Lee, the mastermind who ordered Yeo's covert infiltration, and another 34-year-old mastermind surnamed 정 to three years in prison each.

Their defense claims—arguing that actual crimes were committed by field operatives and that they only amounted to aiding and abetting—was rejected.

The court rebuked them, stating, "Delivery addresses are information inevitably entrusted to businesses for daily life. The defendants turned the residential spaces, which the victims should consider the safest, into targets for retaliatory acts."

The court also emphasized, "Private retaliation bypasses the rule of law and the criminal justice system to punish others independently, causing severe social harm."

(Video Editing: Jeong Yong-hwa, Design: Kim Han-gil)
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