Taiwan's "Judiciary Yuan" confirmed Shi Muqin's resignation. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoyi) Picture source: Taiwan's "China Times Electronic News"
Former Taiwan "Public Punishment Commission" chairman Shi Muqin was accused of having dinner and golf with Jiahe Group Chairman Weng Maozhong, and the two parties even met alone in their respective offices. Regarding "discussing the facts" of many civil and criminal cases involving Weng, the two people had inappropriate contact more than a hundred times in the past 17 years, which violated the ethics of judges. It is reported that the Beijing Prosecutor's Office has been collecting evidence for many years, but the case has made limited progress. It was not until last year that a letter of accusation signed by "a group of judges from the Taichung High Branch who can't stand it" spread throughout the judicial circle. The case took a turn for the worse and became a "Pandora's box" of the case.
It is understood that Shi Muchin was accused of violating judge ethics for 17 years from 1997 to 2014. Since the judge’s statute of limitations for punishment is 10 years, some of Shi’s actions cannot be punished.
It is understood that Taiwan’s Independent Commission Against Corruption received a report in 2014, alleging that a senior executive of a listed company was accused of insider trading and was suspected of bribing the judges and president of the Supreme Court to have the case remanded for a new trial. He was eventually found not guilty. The report list includes Shi Muchin. Soon, the prosecutor received another report, saying that Shi Muqin was asked by his friend Weng Maozhong to talk about the Yinghua stock speculation case, and Weng even bribed the judge with white gloves. However, the prosecutor has been monitoring Weng Maozhong and collecting evidence for many years. Since there is no specific consideration relationship, the case has always been difficult to break through.
Until last year, a report letter was signed by "a group of judges who can't stand it in Taichung High Court". The content pointed out that Weng and Shi had a close friendship. In the case of Weng's speculation in Yinghua stocks, the first and second trials were sentenced to eight years. The appeal After the "Supreme Court" sent back, Taichung High Court sentenced him to a lighter sentence of 4 months in the first instance only in accordance with the Commercial Accounting Law . Even the prosecutors did not appeal and decided to prosecute Shi Wei, an old friend of the case.
Including the Procuratorate for Integrity, the Political Conduct Division of the Judicial Yuan, and the Supervisory Yuan all received this letter of complaint. It is understood that the Supervisory Yuan requested an explanation from the Judicial Yuan, and the Judicial Yuan asked the Taichung High School Branch In response, the Taichung High Court gave eloquent reasons and stated that the verdict did not violate the "law." However, due to the specific content of the report, the prosecutor searched the relevant premises of Weng Maozhong last year and found more than 10 key notebooks by him and his secretary in Weng's office.
It is reported that the notebook details the correspondence between Leon and Shi from 1997 to 2014, including that the two had dinner and golf conversations at high-end Japanese restaurants with a group of senior judicial officers and lawyers, as many as hundreds of times. It even records that Weng and Shi went to their respective offices to meet alone, with a note of "discussing the case." The prosecutor followed the diagram in the notepad and interviewed Weng twice last year and this year.
html In mid-August, the Beijing Procuratorate closed the entire case due to its investigation of Wu Shi’s corruption evidence. However, it believed that Shi’s violation of judge ethics was serious. It rarely reported this to the “Supreme Procuratorate” in a letter on August 26. The “Supreme Procuratorate” wrote in a letter on the 29th. Please ask the Judicial Yuan to handle it. Because Shi's statement alluded to being related to the trial of the Guan Zhongmin case, the Beijing Procuratorate clarified that the Guan case was decided on September 2, and the prosecutors had handled the Shi case before the Guan case was judged, which is enough to prove that the two cases are not related.
