Taipei Times
Date: Nov 18, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld an earlier ruling that found Democratic Progressive Party
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator and Ketagalan Foundation chairman Gao Jyh-peng speaks at a news conference in Taipei on Oct. 28. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
(DPP) Legislator Kao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) and his office assistant, Yao Liang-tian (姚糧鈿), guilty of corruption in the second retrial of a 2006 case stemming from a Taichung land deal.
The court’s Taichung branch sentenced Kao to four years and six months in prison and a NT$500,000 (US$15,690) fine for influence peddling and receiving an illegal political donation of NT$500,000 in contravention of the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例), while Yao was sentenced to a 16-month term.
Both can still appeal.
In the first trial, the lawmaker was found guilty. He appealed his conviction and the decision was overturned and the case sent back for a second trial.
However, in that retrial he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years and six months in prison. Kao then appealed that verdict. [FULL STORY]
