According to Taiwanese media reports, Li Chaoqing, a former Nantou County magistrate from the Kuomintang, his wife's uncle Jian Ruiqi and others were accused of taking advantage of disaster rescue project opportunities to accept kickbacks from manufacturers 111 times, including 8 crimes. In October 2018, Li was sentenced to 12 to 14 years each. The merger should be implemented and sentenced to prison in August 2014; Taichung High Court sentenced the remaining 103 crimes to 21 years in prison in March last year. The "Supreme Court" today rejected the appeal of 9 of the crimes, each with a 12-year sentence. Li Chaoqing increased his sentence by 108 The one-year sentence was fixed, and the remaining 94 crimes were revoked and sent back to the Taichung High School Branch for second trial.
Li was sentenced to prison in November 2018 to execute the sentences for the previous 8 crimes. The new 9 crimes, with a total sentence of 108 years, will be separately determined by the Taichung High Court, and they will be merged with the previous 8 crimes to determine the sentence that should be executed. Multiple crimes The maximum combined prison sentence is 30 years.
In the first instance, the Nantou District Court sentenced Li Chaoqing to 30 years for 111 crimes. In the second instance, the Taichung High Court sentenced Li Chaoqing to 22 years. The "Supreme Court" sentenced 14 years to 8 crimes in August for receiving a total of 9.46 million yuan in kickbacks. The remaining 103 cases totaled The portion of the 3.28 million yuan received was remanded for further trial. In March last year, the Taichung High Court of First Instance sentenced Li Chaoqing to 21 years in prison and deprived him of his public rights for nine years, while Jian Ruiqi was sentenced to 16 years in prison and deprived of his public rights for nine years.
The "Supreme Court" has now determined that nine of the convictions did not violate the law and rejected the appeal. The sentences for all nine crimes were 12 years. As for the other 94 crimes, because the facts needed to be clarified, they were withdrawn again and sent back to Taichung High Court for a second trial.
Li Chaoqing was accused of taking advantage of disaster rescue and other project opportunities to commit fraud and receive kickbacks from manufacturers, including the supervision and testing of the "Shuili Township Investment Route 58 (Wenlu Bridge) road disaster repair and construction project" contracted by the Nantou County Government after the hurricane Vanaby. " and other projects, a total of 12.74 million yuan in rebates were collected before and after.
The first-instance guilty verdict found that Li Chaoqing was entrusted by the county people and should have been honest and self-responsible, taking the welfare of the county people as his own responsibility, but he was not loyal to his position. He actually took advantage of various Nantou County government public projects and other procurement opportunities, abused his power, and married his wife and uncle Jian Ruiqi. Collecting kickbacks from manufacturers, seeking personal gain, showing disgrace in duty, betraying the trust and expectations of the county people, treating the law as nothing, "corrupting official mottos, nothing more than this."
The first-instance judgment also emphasized that every time there is a storm in the Nantou mountainous area, roads and bridges are broken, causing serious damage to people's lives and property. As the county magistrate, Li Chaoqing did not want to strengthen construction, but took advantage of the project contracting opportunity to ask for kickbacks, which seriously affected Regarding the quality of post-disaster restoration projects, 103 crimes were combined and sentenced to 21 years. Nine of the crimes were sentenced today, and the others were sent back for further trial.
