Ko Wen-je, the Democratic Party’s chairman, has been charged with corruption in the Mayor of Taipei District of Huacheng, and has been detained by the Taipei District Attorney’s office on charges of accepting bribes in breach of duty and taking profits. According to a report by T?mori News Cloud on September 2, a Taipei District Court yesterday ruled that KO Wen-je could not be released without bail (prosecutors or the court did not ask the defendant to post a bond to guarantee that he would not flee, but asked the defendant to leave after questioning him) , and former deputy mayor Peng Zhensheng was detained. Ko Wen-je made his debut on Facebook in the early hours of today (February 2) after his release.
Ko Wen-je (center) walked out of the Taipei District Court in the early morning of the 2nd.
According to the report, KO Wen-je said in a Facebook post at 4:58 a.m. on Tuesday that he was grateful for the support of his supporters and that if there was a problem with the judicial authorities, he could have been subpoenaed directly and did not need to be searched in the early morning, search the homes and offices of the chairmen of Taiwan’s main“Opposition” parties, as well as the offices of the democratic party, “Especially the central party headquarters of the Democratic Party of Taiwan. It is impossible to understand what his purpose is”.
In the article, Ko Wen-je said that prosecutors seized his phone and hard drive and used the information to make up stories, “During these two days, we can say that they were extremely oppressive and abusive.”. He also said that in his final defense, he told the judge that the so-called 840% floor space rate of Jinghua city was completely ignored after it was given to the public exhibition and then transferred to the Urban Planning Commission, because as mayor, should not ask about a single case, “Later volume rate of 840% , I actually do not know.”. Ko Wen-je said it was the judge who had the hard work this time, and he had withstood the final pressure.
First of all, the Democratic Party should not forget that apart from the judicial case, KO Wen-je is the party chairman who is “On leave”, according to an article posted on the Facebook fan page by Huang Yangming, an island media person, Chinanews.com reported, the internal party inquiry procedure is still in progress. The funding storm is not over. Second, don’t forget that the Taipei District Attorney’s office has said it will lodge a protest. ‘neither side should get carried away, ‘ Huang said. ‘The Taipei District Attorney’s office is really embarrassed. ‘ .
According to an earlier report by Taiwan’s“Central News Agency,” The floor area ratio (the ratio of the total Gross leasable area of buildings above the ground to the area of a base) of the city’s capital, Peking, shot up to 840% during KO Wen-je’s tenure as mayor, the escort industry was questioned by the outside world. In May, the Taipei District Attorney’s office investigated the case and named KO Wen-je and others as defendants. It also instructed the independent commission against corruption (ICAC) to collect evidence and interview former Peng Zhensheng and Taipei City Government officials.
In the early hours of August 31, KO Wen-je was arrested in front of a prosecutor for refusing to leave a night interrogation. Ko Wen-je later applied to the court for an arraignment, which he said was a mistake, but was denied and taken back to the Taipei District Attorney’s Office for questioning. Prosecutors decided that KO Wen-je was a serious criminal suspect and threatened to destroy evidence and collude. The Taipei District Attorney’s office applied to the court to have Ko Wen-je detained. The Taipei District Court held a detention court at 8pm on September 1 and ruled that KO Wen-je was not a serious criminal suspect and was released without bail.