Focus Taiwan
Date: 08/07/2020
By: Su Mu-chun, Chao Li-yen and Elizabeth Hsu

Taichung, Aug. 7 (CNA) A court has ordered two traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and one medicine dealer based in Taichung to be detained and held incommunicado for their part in a heavy metal poisoning case that has left at least eight people ill.

The Taichung District Court granted a request by prosecutors to detain Sheng Tang Chinese Medicine Clinic chief practitioner Lu Shih-ming (呂世明), Jin Fu Chinese Medicine Clinic practitioner Hung Chang-hung (洪彰宏), and Ou Kuo-liang (歐國樑), head of the Hsin Lung Medicine Co.

The trio are suspected of violating pharmaceutical laws because of their involvement in the lead poisoning of at least eight people, including former Taichung City Council Speaker Chang Hung-nien (張宏年), his wife, his son and his daughter, the court ruled.

It said the trio had to be detained because they could destroy or falsify evidence or collude with each other to falsify testimony were they to be released.    [FULL  STORY]