A Taipei Fire Department section chief was arrested on Saturday for allegedly engaging the services of a sex worker, who ingested a prophylactic in an effort to destroy the evidence.
The section chief, surnamed Chen (陳), was caught in a state of undress with the sex worker at a brothel in Keelung.
After being tipped off that a local spa establishment was a front for prostitution, police from Keelung’s First Precinct obtained a warrant from district prosecutors and set up surveillance at 9pm.
They raided the establishment at 10pm, first arresting an accountant allegedly in charge of controlling a secret switch to gain access to a concealed back room.
Two couples were arrested, including Chen and a female spa worker, surnamed Cheng (鄭), police said.
The arresting officers said they saw Cheng ingesting an object.
She was later quoted by police as saying it was Chen’s condom, which she swallowed out of fright.
Although Chen expressed embarrassment and pleaded to be let go during his arrest, he denied receiving sexual services and insisted that he was undressed to receive skin-scraping treatment (刮痧), police said.
Another man and female spa employee were also arrested, police said, adding that during questioning, the second man confessed to procuring sexual services.
An unnamed Taipei City Fire Department official said Chen’s arrest came as a surprise, describing the section chief as “modest and stuffy,” and happily married.
Sources said that Chen was drunk that night and might have been pressured by a friend to go “get happy.”
The department on Monday convened a Performance Evaluation Committee meeting to discuss Chen’s case and has referred the case to prosecutors. It recommended one charge for violating the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法) for both sex workers and their clients, and a sex offense charge for two spa staff members.
Police said clients of sex workers are usually fined about NT$3,000.
As for the prophylactic, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital General Surgery Department director Huang Ting-shuo (黃挺碩) said that the body can usually expel a condom without difficulty.
However, if the person who ingested the latex failed to do so and experienced abdominal pain, they should visit a hospital to have it removed via surgery or endoscopy, he said.
Additional reporting by Wu Cheng-feng
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
Many Japanese couples are coming to Taiwan to obtain donated sperm or eggs for fertility treatment due to conservatism in their home country, Taiwan’s high standards and low costs, doctors said. One in every six couples in Japan is receiving infertility treatment, Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare data show. About 70,000 children are born in Japan every year through in vitro fertilization (IVF), or about one in every 11 children born. Few people accept donated reproductive cells in Japan due to a lack of clear regulations, leaving treatment in a “gray zone,” Taichung Nuwa Fertility Center medical director Wang Huai-ling (王懷麟)
PROXIMITY: Prague is closer to Dresden than Berlin is, so Taiwanese firms are expected to take advantage of the Czech capital’s location, the Executive Yuan official said Taiwan plans to boost cooperation with the Czech Republic in semiconductor development due to Prague’s pivotal role in the European IC industry, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) said. With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) building a wafer fab in the German city of Dresden, a Germany-Czech Republic-Poland “silicon triangle” is forming, Kung said in a media interview on the weekend after returning from a visit to Prague. “Prague is closer to Dresden than Berlin is, so Taiwanese firms are expected to take advantage of the Czech capital’s location,” he said. “Taiwan and Prague have already launched direct flights and it is
RSS