STRIPPED OF OFFICE: An investigation found that Lee Chuan-chiao bribed seven city councilors to be elected speaker, and bought votes in the preceding election
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 12, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a guilty verdict for former Tainan
Former Tainan City Council speaker Lee Chuan-chiao talks to reporters in Tainan in an undated photograph. Photo: Tsai Wen-chu, Taipei Times
City Council speaker Lee Chuan-chiao (李全教) for charges of vote-buying, sentencing him to four years in prison and depriving him of his civil rights for five years.
Lee, a prominent Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) figure in the city, was in December 2014 elected speaker following city councilor elections.
However, a judicial probe found that Lee bribed seven fellow councilors to get himself elected, at a price of NT$10 million (US$328,073 at the current exchange rate) per vote.
The Tainan District Court in April 2016 found Lee guilty of vote-buying.
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