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MOJ tweaks prosecutor reshuffle list

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) yesterday made adjustments to its nationwide chief prosecutor reshuffle plan after the initial plan was slammed by critics.

The ministry's Prosecutor's Personnel Review Committee held a meeting last Thursday to discuss the reshuffle, but only eight of the 17 members of the committee attended the meeting, with a majority refusing to participate on the grounds that the proposed reshuffle smacked of political interference.

The nine absentees reached a consensus yesterday morning to attend another Prosecutor's Personnel Review Committee meeting scheduled for later that day.

Committee member and Tainan prosecutor Chen Chih-ming (陳鋕銘) told reporters that the nine members had decided not to boycott the meeting as the MOJ had agreed to give committee members a greater say on changes affecting district chief prosecutors and employees at the high prosecutors' office. This would also mean that the minister of justice -- a Cabinet member -- would no longer hold sway on personnel changes.

Chen said the ministry would soon hold another Prosecutor's Personnel Review Committee meeting to establish new rules on chief prosecutor reshuffles.

Vice Minister of Justice Lee Chin-yung (李進勇) told a press conference yesterday that Kaohsiung District Prosecutors' Office chief Ling Po-chih (凌博志), who refused to take the job of secretary-general at the MOJ, would become a lead prosecutor for the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office's Tainan branch.

He said that Ho Ming-chen (何明楨), chief prosecutor of the Yunlin District Prosecutors' Office, would become chief prosecutor at the Ilan District Prosecutors' Office, rather than in Pingtung. Ho refused the Pingtung position last week.

Lee added that Taichung District Prosecutors' Office chief Chiang Hui-ming (江惠民) had finally accepted the position of director of the ministry's Department of Prosecutorial Affairs.

The official said the majority of the committee had agreed to the adjustments to the personnel changes, adding that the ministry would establish regulations to deal with future personnel changes.
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