Prosecutors on Friday said they indicted a woman in her 20s and a man in her 30s for armed assaulted, coercion and robbery against a man whom they had accused of sexual assault.
The suspects are accused of breaking into the victim's home on March 22, stabbing him several times and stealing 13 million won ($8,770). Investigators believe this was to coerce a fake crime confession out of the victim, the recording for which was uncovered in a digital forensic analysis of the suspects' phones.
The victim had been accused of a sexual attack against the female assailant, but the charge was cleared by police. The two suspects reportedly hired a private agency to find out where the victim lives and attacked him.
Prosecutors are also reviewing the initial sexual assault case to see if the suspects could be charged with a wrongful accusation.
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