Councilor faces detention for Taipei Dome talk

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-24
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taipei City Councilor Wang Shih-chien could face 50 days in detention for alleging that a key city government official had accepted money from Taipei Dome developer Farglory Group, reports said Wednesday.
An appeal against the Taipei District Court verdict was still possible, though. The sentence could also be commuted to a NT$50,000 (US$1,570) fine.

The city and the development company have been locked in a conflict about the completion of the stadium project for more than a year and a half, but the surprising element in the Wang case was that both sides involved were linked to the Democratic Progressive Party.

During a television interview last January, Wang, a veteran DPP politician, hinted that someone on the city government team had accepted “an unfairly high amount of money” to agree to negotiations between the city and Farglory about the Taipei Dome.     [FULL  STORY]