Ravi Appeals Suspended Sentence For Military Service Fraud

Ravi (30, Kim Won-shik) from the idol group VIXX, who was accused of attempting to evade military service by posing as an epileptic patient, is expected to appear again in the appeals court along with rapper Nafla (31, Choi Seok-bae), who was tried together.

According to the legal community on the 21st, the prosecution filed an appeal on the 16th, disobeying the first trial ruling on charges of violating the Military Service Act by a total of nine people, including Ravi Nafla. It was confirmed that the prosecution did not accept the first trial sentences of all the defendants who were tried this time.

Accordingly, Ravi, who was sentenced to probation and has not yet submitted an appeal, will be tried in the second trial due to the prosecution’s appeal.

Previously, the 7th detective of the Seoul Southern District Court ordered Ravi, who was handed over to trial on charges of violating the Military Service Act on the afternoon of the 10th, to 1 year in prison, 2 years probation and 120 hours of community service. At the time, the prosecution had requested a two-year prison term for Ravi.

The judge ruled that “Ravi and broker Goo Mo meticulously planned to evade military service by pretending to have no symptoms of epilepsy, and obstructed the work of public officials through hierarchical means, and the crime was not good.” However, the judge said, “We take into consideration all circumstances, such as the fact that it is a first-time offender, that he is admitting his mistake and is reflecting, and that he is likely to fulfill his military service obligation after being judged again on his military service grade.”

According to the prosecution, Ravi was indicted without detention on charges of conspiring with a military service broker, Mr. Gu, to pose as a fake epileptic patient, receive a false diagnosis, and try to be exempted from military service. It was investigated that Ravi acted as if he had fainted after receiving an ‘epilepsy scenario’ from Mr. Goo and received a hospital examination. It turned out that the doctor in charge made a diagnosis that ‘the symptoms were not confirmed’, but she ignored it and requested a prescription for medication.

According to the arraignment submitted by the Ministry of Justice by the Office of Congressman Jeong Jeong-sik, Ravi was judged as a third-grade active soldier due to bronchial asthma in the first military service physical examination in 2012, and then continued to postpone military service, and was judged fourth-grade at a re-examination in 2019.

However, Ravi received a medical certificate for suspected epilepsy at Goo’s suggestion and submitted a request for a change in military service to the Military Manpower Administration in June 2021. sent. In the end, Ravi was granted a grade 5 military exemption from the Military Manpower Administration in May 2022, and two months later was judged as a grade 4 in September 2022 according to the Military Manpower Administration’s judgment that there was an error in calculating the drug prescription period.

Ravi, who has been performing alternative service as a social worker since October 2022, said, “I applied and served as a social worker myself, so I didn’t have a proper awareness of the problem. It was my rationalization. How wrong I was under investigation, how many people I realized that I had hurt him. I think my fault and the resulting criticism are my responsibility,” he said. “I apologize to those who are working hard during this time, to the patients with epilepsy who have been hurt by me, and to their families. I will not forget this moment and will atone for the rest of my life.”

Meanwhile, while Nafla was sentenced to one year in prison for violating the Military Service Act, he disobeyed and submitted an appeal. Nafla, a former winner of Mnet’s ‘Show Me The Money 777’, has been active as a member of the hip-hop label Groovlin founded by Ravi, and has been working as a social worker since February 2021, complaining of depression according to Mr. Goo’s scenario and attempting to evade military service. arrested and indicted for It is known that Mr. Goo instructed Nafla to “feel the urge to make an extreme choice and pretend to be receiving psychiatric treatment.”