Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office Present First Cash Vote-Buying Indictment

• Publication Date： 2014-12-10
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Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office Present First Cash Vote-Buying Indictment Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office has received greatly achievement for anti-election bribery in this five-in-one local election. After intensive investigation, prosecutors have found 2 cash vote-buying cases, one was occurred in Fongshan, and the other was in Gangshan. There were 6 defendants be indicted for against Civil Servants Election and Recall Act on November 10th 2014. (1) Case fact in Fongshan District： In the end of September this year, Mr. Hsueh and Mr. Lin ordered Mr. Lee and Mrs. Chia to invite the eligible voters in Fongshan to attend certain Municipal Councilor candidate’s drum-up support activity on October 4th . There were 130 person be invited to join the event. After the activity, Mr. Chia gave each participant NT. 300 to buy their vote in this election. Mr. Hsueh designated Mr. Lin to allocate bribery fund NT.45,000 to Mr. Lee and Mrs. Chia. (2) Case fact in Gangshan District： Mr. Kuo, the village chief candidate in Gangshan District, gave Mr. Yu NT.20,000 in the late September for asking Mr. Yu delivery bribe to voters in his electoral district. Therefore, Mr. Yu allocated NT500 to NT3,000 to 8 citizens in the village to buy their vote for Mr. Kuo. All of the voters in above-mentioned admitted taking bribe during prosecutor interrogation. Considering the voters had clean crime record, and voluntarily returned the bribe, prosecutors decided not to prosecute any of them. Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office has received lots suspected election-bribery reports from police and reporters. 23 of the suspected reports have been opened officially investigation. Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office reminded everyone do not bribe in election and be sure to report to the authorities if there was any vote-buying happened.