Former Nantou County Mayor Li Chaoqing, his wife's uncle Jian Ruiqi, etc., were accused of taking advantage of the disaster rescue project opportunities and collecting rebates from manufacturers 111 times. Among them, Li was sentenced to jail in 14 years and sentenced to jail in August three years ago. In March last year, the remaining 103 crimes were sentenced to 21 years. The Taiwan Supreme Court yesterday rejected the appeal of 9 of them and 12 years of sentence each. Li Chaoqing decided to add 108 years of sentence to a final decision, and the remaining 94 crimes were revoked and sent back for trial.
Li Chaoqing Data picture
Li Chaoqing was sentenced to prison for more than 14 years in November 2018. The newly added 9 crimes were sentenced to a total of 108 years. The 9 new crimes will be sentenced separately by the Taichung High School Branch, and the sentence should be executed together with the previous 8 crimes. However, according to relevant local regulations in Taiwan, he will not exceed the maximum limit of multiple crimes and fixed-term imprisonment of 30 years.
Nantou District Court sentenced Li Chaoqing to 30 years in the first instance, and the Taichung Higher Branch changed his sentence to 22 years in the second instance. The Supreme Court sentenced 14 years and 8 months for the eight crimes that collected 9.46 million yuan (NTD, the same below) to kickbacks, and the remaining 103 cases received a total of 3.28 million yuan and sent back for trial. In March last year, the Taichung High School sentenced Li Chaoqing to 21 years in prison for 103 crimes and deprived of his public rights for 9 years, while Jian Ruiqi was sentenced to 16 years in prison and 9 years in prison for 103 crimes.
Li Chaoqing was accused of taking advantage of more than 120 projects including road repairs after the disaster and charging kickbacks from manufacturers, including the repair of Wenlu Bridge roads in Shuili Township after the Fannabi typhoon, and collecting kickbacks from the winning manufacturers one by one. The court further criticized the first instance that whenever the Nantou mountainous area was stormy, the roads and bridges were heartbroken. As the county magistrate, Li Chaoqing abused his power to collect kickbacks, seek personal gain, and endangered the quality of the restoration project. He regarded the law as nothing, "There is nothing to corrupt the official etiquette."
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