Police Officers Suspected to Received Bribe from Dealers in Gambling Arcade Game Industry

• Publication Date： 2015-11-17
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Police Officers Suspected to Received Bribe from Dealers in Gambling Arcade Game Industry Prosecutors of Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office joined with agents of AAC( Agency Against Corruption) have investigated a case of a corrupt Police Officers, who received bribery from dealers in gambling arcade game industry. On October 20th 2015, the prosecutors commanded the law enforcement officials from Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office, AAC, the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, Criminal Investigation Bureau, Inspectors’ Office and Ethics official in Kaohsiung City Police Department, together with Military Police to conduct simultaneous search of 14 electronic game arcades in Fongshan, Renwu, Dashu, Dashe and Niaosong District. After questioning 30 persons of interest, the Prosecutors held that Mr. Jiang, one 41 year old suspect, who was a former detective in Renwu Precinct, has violated article 4 of the Anti-Corruption Act by taking bribes by the acts that violate the official duties. Mr. Lee, a 50-year-old dealer in gambling arcade game industry, along with his 46-year-old wife, Ms. Lee and Mr. Hisao was suspected to violate article 11 of the Anti-Corruption Act by tendering a bribe to Jiang in return for his performing or omitting against his official duties. These 5 strongly suspected suspects were requested to be detained without the right of meeting with visitors, given the sufficient facts that they might conspire with other co-offender or witness. Other 5 suspects were granted bail from 30 thousand NTD to 200 thousand NTD. After gathering the evidence, the special task force has found out that Jiang was assigned to put down the gambling arcade game industry in the Jiuqu substation, while he worked as a detective in Renwu Precinct before May 2014. Instead of fulfilling his duty, he took the bribery from the dealers like Lee or Hisao per month. Related intelligence was passed to Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office, AAC and Ethics official in Kaohsiung City Police Department in January 2015. Head Prosecutor Wang instantly set up the above-mentioned special task force to investigate this case after receiving such intel.