Taipei Times
Date: Oct 27, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Prosecutors yesterday ordered local police to step up their monitoring of eight Chinese
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Pingtung County branch director Liao Wan-ju, front row fourth right, holds hands with seven of the eight KMT county councilors who were convicted of graft and receiving bribes — from left, Kui Hsiao-hui, Chen Chao-chung, Pan Cheng-chih, Yen Chin-cheng, Liao, Wang Chih-feng, Chen Mei-chiung and Lee Chi-hsiang — during a news conference in the county yesterday. Photo: CNA
Nationalist Party (KMT) councilors in Pingtung County to prevent them from fleeing, after their conviction for taking bribes was upheld.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction against eight KMT councilors involved in a case from 2014.
The court heard that, before the Pingtung County Council’s internal election for speaker, which was won by the KMT’s Chou Tien-lu (周典論), Chou had handed out bribes of up to NT$20,000 each to fellow councilors to secure their vote. He had also treated them to hotel stays, nightclub and massage parlor visits, and had given tailored suits to the men.
The councillors were found guilty in the first and second trials in 2016 and last year. At the time, nine KMT councilors were convicted: Wang Chih-feng (王志豐), Chen Mei-chiung (陳美瓊), Pan Yu-lung (潘裕隆), Lee Chi-hsiang (李冀香), Yen Chin-cheng (顏金成), Chen Chao-chung (陳昭忠), Pan Cheng-chih (潘政治), Kui Hsiao-hui (歸曉惠) and Hsu Tien-shih (許天賜). [FULL STORY]