Scoop magazine publisher Shen Jung (
Shen was speaking at the final pretrial hearing held by the Taipei District Court over the sex-VCD scandal.
The hearing focused on the magazine's role in duplicating and distributing the VCD.
Shen was neither asked, nor volunteered, her view as to who shot the footage.
Shen told judges Hsu Shih-chen (徐世楨), Kuo Hui-ling (郭惠玲) and Li Hui-ping (黎惠萍) that she was the one who decided to give away copies of the VCD with a December issue of the magazine. She added that she wrote five news stories under five different bylines about Chu having sex with her married lover, Tseng Chung-ming (曾仲銘), at Chu's apartment last summer.
"When I first watched the VCD, I strongly felt that it was a shot by Chu," Shen said at the hearing. "So I decided to duplicate the VCD and give the copies away with the magazines as evidence for the stories."
Shen Yeh (
Shen Yeh's assistant, Wei An (
"It would have embarrassed the magazine if we had admitted that we purchased the master copy from Kuanghwa Market," said Shen Jung. "As a result, we decided to make up a story that the VCD came from a secret source."
Shen Yeh, Shen Jung and Wei were all indicted for offending public morals and forging documents.
Senior Prosecutor Lin Jinn-tsun (林錦村) has suggested a sentence of two years and two months for Shen Yeh; one year and four months for Shen Jung; and one year and 10 months for Wei.
The trial begins on July 25.
A fugitive in a suspected cosmetic surgery fraud case today returned to Taiwan from Canada, after being wanted for six years. Internet celebrity Su Chen-tuan (蘇陳端), known as Lady Nai Nai (貴婦奈奈), and her former boyfriend, plastic surgeon Paul Huang (黃博健), allegedly defrauded clients and friends of about NT$1 billion (US$30.66 million). Su was put on a wanted list in 2019 when she lived in Toronto, Canada, after failing to respond to subpoenas and arrest warrants from the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. Su arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 5am today on an EVA Air flight accompanied by a
A 79-year-old woman died today after being struck by a train at a level crossing in Taoyuan, police said. The woman, identified by her surname Wang (王), crossed the tracks even though the barriers were down in Jhongli District’s (中壢) Neili (內壢) area, the Taoyuan Branch of the Railway Police Bureau said. Surveillance footage showed that the railway barriers were lowered when Wang entered the crossing, but why she ventured onto the track remains under investigation, the police said. Police said they received a report of an incident at 6:41am involving local train No. 2133 that was heading from Keelung to Chiayi City. Investigators
The Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office today requested that a court detain three individuals, including Keelung Department of Civil Affairs Director Chang Yuan-hsiang (張淵翔), in connection with an investigation into forged signatures used in recall campaigns. Chang is suspected of accessing a household registration system to assist with recall campaigns targeting Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) city councilors Cheng Wen-ting (鄭文婷) and Jiho Chang (張之豪), prosecutors said. Prosecutors yesterday directed investigators to search six locations, including the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Keelung office and the residences of several recall campaign leaders. The recall campaign leaders, including Chi Wen-chuan (紀文荃), Yu Cheng-i (游正義) and Hsu Shao-yeh
COVID-19 infections have climbed for three consecutive weeks and are likely to reach another peak between next month and June, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. Weekly hospital visits for the disease increased by 19 percent from the previous week, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Director Guo Hung-wei (郭宏偉) said. From Tuesday last week to yesterday, 21 cases of severe COVID-19 and seven deaths were confirmed, and from Sept. 1 last year to yesterday, there were 600 cases and 129 deaths, he said. From Oct. 1 last year to yesterday, 95.9 percent of the severe cases and 96.7 percent of the deaths
RSS