According to the United News Network and the China Times News Network on March 2, the founding chairman of the People‘s Party of Taiwan, Ke Wenzhe, has been indicted by the prosecution over cases involving Beijing and Huacheng, and the Taipei Provincial Court will pronounce judgment on March 26. Ke Wenzhe will head to the Taipei Legal Services Department on the morning of March 3 with a group of lawyers to apply for a prosecutor‘s assessment of former Taipei Provincial Prosecutor Lin Junyan for improper interrogation (using improper methods to interrogate defendants or criminal suspects) during the investigation of the case, including detention, forgery of transcripts, etc. to the “Prosecutors‘ Appraisal Committee” (shortly known as the “Appraisal Committee”).
Ko Wen-che Infographic Source: Taiwan United News Network
The media reported that the People‘s Party announced on the 2nd day the public itinerary of Ko Wen-cheol‘s “tracing back to evil prosecutions and abuses of power to defend the judicial defense line”. It said it would deliver a related speech on the morning of the 3rd at the front steps of the legal department. The accompanying staff included 3 appointed lawyers for Ko Wen-cheol‘s Beijing-Hua City case.
The People‘s Party declared that the conclusion of the 2017 Bureau Reform Conference mentioned that Taiwan should establish a “responsibility-matched” prosecution system, establishing internal supervision and external accountability mechanisms. Many years later, criminal prosecutions have blatantly treated procedural justice as if it were written (formal words with no practical effect), showing that the existing assessment mechanism has not deployed the retrieval and exit mechanism, becoming an accomplice to criminal prosecutions‘ improper exercise of authority.
The statement said that in the Jinghua City case, the prosecution and investigation applied for search warrants based on untrue “evidence” and incorrect laws. Dozens of troops forcibly searched Ke Wenzhe‘s residence, office, People’s Party headquarters, and workers’ residences in the People’s Party. During the investigation, the legal department and the Taipei District Attorney‘s Office even allowed the investigation to be publicized, allowing improper interrogations, untrue statements to mislead sight and hearing, and incriminating people.
The statement announces that Ke will apply to the Prosecution Assessment Committee for prosecuting Lin Junyan’s allegations that he violated the Prosecution Ethics Code and the Criminal Procedure for improper interrogations during the investigation, such as detention, falsification of statements, etc.
The Central Time News Network reported that the chief prosecutor of the New North District Attorney‘s Office, Lin Junyan, during his tenure at the Taipei District Attorney‘s Office investigating the Jinghua City case, had a “chat” with Shen Qingjing, the chairman of Weijing Group, for more than 2 hours in the hospital without audio or video recording. After that, Lin went to the hospital again to interrogate Shen Qingjing under the pretext of “inspection”, saying that Shen could not be released on bail if he did not plead guilty. The Prosecutor Assessment Committee determined that Lin‘s behavior was inappropriate, violating the obligation of “ diligent discharge of duty” in the “Procurator Ethics Code”, and decided to transfer him to the New North District Attorney‘s Office for duty supervision and punishment. Ke Wenzhe, who is also a defendant in the Jinghua City case like Shen Qingjing, will also apply for a prosecutor‘s assessment on 3rd, hoping to trace back to the collective crimes of prosecutors.