Taiwan High Court will have to do other corruption trial which ended with 12-year sentence over again
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/22
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former Cabinet Secretary-General Lin Yi-shih (林
Former Cabinet Secretary-General Lin Yi-shih. (By Central News Agency)
益世) will have to serve two years in prison in a corruption case, while a related 12-year verdict will have to be reconsidered, according to a ruling by the Supreme Court Wednesday.
Lin was once one of the most promising young Kuomintang (KMT) politicians, elected legislator at the age of 31 in 1999 and joining the Cabinet in 2012, during the rule of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).
The scandal broke into the open in the same year, when a businessman accused Lin through the media of demanding NT$83 million (US$2.7 million) from him in return for a contract with a state-run company, after he had already paid Lin NT$63 million (US$2 million) earlier when he was still a lawmaker.
The case acquired a high profile due to its implications of political corruption, and Lin was detained for a while. [FULL STORY]
