Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/26
By: Hsiao Po-wen and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) The Supreme Court upheld a ruling by a lower court
Gao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) / CNA file photo
Wednesday, sentencing Legislator Gao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to four years and six months in jail with a four-year deprivation of civil rights for corruption.
Kao was found guilty of influence peddling and receiving an illegal political donation of NT$500,000 (US$16,214) in a second retrial by the Taiwan High Court of a 2006 case stemming from a Taichung land deal.
The case was related to Kao’s involvement in a Taichung company’s efforts to lease a plot of land belonging to the Ministry of Finance’s National Property Administration.
The Supreme Court rejected Kao’s appeal and upheld the High Court ruling.
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