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Participation in an organized criminal group

  • Offences

      • • Organizing, directing, aiding, abetting, facilitating or counselling the commission of a crime involving an organized criminal group

Republic of Korea

 Part II
 Article 114
 Chapter V

Adoption Date:

1953-09-18

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Article 5: Criminalization of participation in an organized criminal group

  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Original Text

    Article 114 (Organization of Criminal Group)

    (1) A person who organizes a group whose purpose is to commit a crime, or who joins such group, shall receive the punishment specified for such crime: Provided, That the punishment may be mitigated.

    (2) A person who organizes a group whose purpose is to reject compulsory military service or liability to pay taxes, or joins such group, shall be punished by imprisonment or imprisonment without prison labor for not more than ten years, or by a fine not exceeding fifteen million won. <Amended by Act No. 5057, Dec. 29, 1995>

    (3) A person who commits the crimes of the preceding two paragraphs and is punished by imprisonment or imprisonment without prison labor for a definite term or fine, may concurrently be punished by suspension of qualifications for not more than ten years.

     
     
     

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