Suspect in Room N incident is under investigation by prosecutors without lawyers to defend him

Zhao Zhubin (Data map comes from the Internet)

Recently, Zhao Zhubin, a suspect in the "Room N" incident who was handed over to prosecutors on suspicion of sexually exploiting children and distributing pornographic videos, was investigated by prosecutors for the first time on the 26th. On that day, he was not accompanied by a defense lawyer and was alone under investigation because "the lawyer was very shocked after learning about the case in detail and refused to defend him."

According to South Korean media reports on the 26th, Zhao Zhubin (online name is "Doctor"), the main culprit of the "Room N" incident, was investigated by prosecutors that morning. On the same day, Zhao Zhubin did not have an accompanying lawyer, and he himself expressed his willingness to accept the investigation alone. The report said that the lawyer who originally planned to defend Zhao Zhubin submitted his resignation on the 25th. The lawyer said that "when Zhao Zhubin's family entrusted the case, they only told them that it was a simple sexual crime case. But the details later learned were completely different from their original description, so it was decided to terminate the defense contract."

In fact, after the information about the lawyer defending Zhao Zhubin and his law firm was disclosed by South Korean media on the 25th, the law firm received countless protest calls and the company's official website was also attacked and paralyzed. People in the South Korean legal profession have said that Cho Zhubin's criminal behavior is too cruel, and it is estimated that no lawyer will be willing to defend him.

According to South Korean media reports on the 26th, South Korean police revealed on the same day that three virtual currency exchanges and virtual currency entrusted trading company Bestcoin had been raided on the 13th and 19th of this month to collect information on the payment of virtual currency by members of "Room N" to Zhao Zhubin. According to reports, Zhao Zhubin used instant messaging software to disseminate and sell child pornography videos, and his criminal proceeds are estimated to reach billions of won.

Police also revealed on the 26th that police had recently arrested "Pacific", the group owner who operated another "Room N". He was actually a 16-year-old boy. He was originally a paid member in Zhao Zhubin's chat room, and later joined the operation team of the "Doctor" and was known as the "Doctoral Successor". He was suspected of creating a chat group on instant messaging software from October last year to February this year and uploading various sexual exploitation videos, with a maximum membership of 10,000. The video he circulated was suspected to be a screenshot from the "Doctor" room or other "Room N".

"This is not only a problem for Cho Zhubin alone, but a problem for the entire Korean society." "World Daily" said on the 26th that the Seoul Bar Association issued a statement on the same day, saying that "in the current Korean society, the tendency to regard women as sexual objects is becoming increasingly extreme, and the culture of hatred of women has a strong market, which has contributed to the formation of a mature system in cyberspace. Sexual crime industry chain: committing sexual crimes, consumer crimes." The statement also pointed out that the police's ineffective investigation of sexual crime cases and the court's excessively light penalties for such crimes have provided an opportunity for the proliferation of online sexual crimes, and penalties for sexual violence crimes and online sexual crimes should be increased.