INCHEON, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Police on Friday referred a sexual assault case involving the chairman of Mongolia's Constitutional Court to the prosecution recommending indictment.
The justice, Dorj Odbayar, is alleged to have touched the buttocks of a South Korean female flight attendant and intimidated a Mongolian crew member on a Korean Air flight from Ulaanbaatar to Incheon, west of Seoul, on Oct. 31.
Legal experts said the prosecution is most likely to ask the court to summarily Fine the suspect, given the degree of seriousness of his alleged crime and that he is a foreigner.
"In the case of a simple indecent act by compulsion that is not so serious in nature, most of them are sentenced to fines," a judiciary expert said.
"The prosecution is expected to seek summary procedures to fine Chairman Dorj Odbayar between 1 million won (US$864) and 5 million won," he said.
Odbayar, who returned to South Korea on Wednesday, has been prohibited from leaving the country until Nov. 15.
The prosecution could lift the travel ban if it seeks summary procedures and if he deposits money equivalent to an estimated fine with the court, as was the case with a Hungarian swimmer who was charged with sexual harassment in July.
