You Chih-hsiao (游志僥), a former part-time employee at the Yilan County Public Health Bureau, was given a six-year prison sentence and lost his voting rights for three years after a court found him guilty of defrauding the county government of NT$17.69 million (US$566,207).
You’s claims that he was not defrauding the government, but merely “borrowing” the funds were dismissed, the Yilan District Court’s ruling on Tuesday showed.
The court ruled that You still owed the Yilan County Government NT$11.09 million and that the funds would be confiscated.
Photo: Chiang Chih-hsiung, Taipei Times
The Yilan County Government said it had taken measures to ameliorate the process and would be conducting unannounced procedural checks to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring.
You oversaw the bureau’s collaboration with convenience store chains to issue vouchers encouraging tuberculosis patients to undergo treatment through convenience store platforms and noticed a discrepancy in the payment and delivery times.
A chronic online gambler suffering from a failed cryptocurrency investment, You placed 32 fake orders with the 7-Eleven, FamilyMart and HiLife convenience store chains from February to September 2022, the court ruling said.
You said that due to a shortage of time, he would place the order first and provide payment after the bureau’s management approved the order, the court ruling said.
Once You obtained the vouchers, he sold them on Facebook, with a discounted price varying from 14 to 18 percent off, and then wired the sales’ proceeds to the convenience store, the court ruling showed.
However, You could not keep pace with the payments, and FamilyMart issued a formal letter to the bureau in September 2022 requesting that payment be made, the ruling showed.
You turned himself in to the Ministry of Justice Agency Against Corruption in October 2022 and was dismissed from the bureau in December that same year, the ruling said.
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