The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) yesterday announced that prosecutors had indicted more than 8,300 people for corruption over the last six years.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government vowed to fight corruption when it took power in 2000. The MOJ yesterday said that in the six years to July, prosecutors around the nation had brought 3,341 corruption cases to the court, and a total of 8,368 people had been indicted -- an average of 46 corruption cases and 115 people sent to the court each month.
The MOJ said among the 8,368 people taken to court, 451 were senior government officials, 528 were elected officials, 1,509 were middle-level government officials, 2,591 were basic level civil servants, and 3,289 were contracted staff.
Senior and elected officials accounted for 29.73 percent of those indicted, the MOJ said.
The DPP government established the Black Gold Investigation Center under the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office in 2001. The agency is in charge of fighting serious corruption and corruption involving high-level officials.
Prosecutor Eric Chen (
Wu has been accused of pocketing cash from a Presidential Office expense fund by claiming reimbursement for fake expenditures.
While the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government rarely brought high-level government officials to justice when it was in power before 2000, a number of minister-level officials have been charged with corruption under the DPP government.
Former Presidential Office deputy secretary-general Chen Che-nan (
Former head of the Financial Supervisory Commission, Kong Jaw-sheng (
Former director-general of the Financial Supervisory Commis-sion's (FSC) Examination Bureau, Lee Chin-chen (李進誠), was sentenced in July to 10 years in prison for corruption.
Former Fair Trade Commission vice chairman Chen Chi-yuan (
Meanwhile, former vice minister of the interior Yen Wan-chin's (顏萬進), former deputy minister of the National Science Council, Shieh Ching-jyh (謝清志), and former minister of transportation and communications Lin Ling-san (林陵三) are all under investigation for alleged corruption.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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