Huang Shang-feng (黃上豐), who hired two gangsters to assassinate a Kaohsiung prosecutor and fled to China in 1995, received a life sentence from the High Court’s Kaohsiung branch yesterday.
Huang has been detained since he was repatriated from a prison in Guangdong Province, China, in May last year.
Huang can appeal yesterday’s ruling to the Supreme Court, the High Court’s Kaohsiung branch said in its ruling.
The ruling said that in 1995, Huang paid two gangsters to kill Kaohsiung prosecutor Chang Chin-tu (張金塗) in front of Chang’s house after the prosecutor indicted Huang’s mother for trafficking heroin.
Chang survived being shot 12 times, but was disabled.
Huang absconded to China three days before the attack on Chang, the ruling said.
The ruling said Huang paid two gangsters surnamed Chang and Chung NT$200,000 (US$6,000) each before he left the country and promised to pay them another NT$800,000 each after the pair had shot and killed the prosecutor.
When Chang and Chung were arrested they claimed that Huang had paid them to assassinate the prosecutor.
The ruling said Huang was one of the most dangerous criminals in the country, trafficking drugs and committing several murders, so the court delivered a heavy sentence.
Judicial officials had said Huang fled to Shenzhen in 1995 and became a drug dealer, adding that he and other Taiwanese fugitives had ganged together to smuggle drugs from China and Vietnam into Taiwan.
In 1998, Huang was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Guangdong Province for the 1997 murder of a Taiwanese gangster surnamed Wu in Shenzhen.
Wu had reportedly asked him to pay a US$1 million gambling debt he allegedly owed a casino in the Philippines.
Huang was released on parole from a Guangdong prison in late 2005 and was later suspected of leading a gang that ran illegal casinos and dealt drugs in Shenzhen.
In November 2007, police arrested Huang in Zhuhai, Guangdong, as he was negotiating with Chinese gangsters on a drug deal.
Huang was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Chinese court. After completing the sentence in May last year, he was extradited to Taiwan.
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