The Keelung District Court today sentenced a former Keelung official and a former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) branch director to one year and 10 months in prison for misuse of personal data in a recall campaign and document forgery.
Former Keelung Department of Civil Affairs director Chang Yuan-hsiang (張淵翔) and KMT Keelung branch chairman Wu Kuo-sheng (吳國勝) each received a suspended sentence of three years.
Four other defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year and two months to one year and eight months, with a suspended sentence of three years.
Photo: Lin Chia-tung, Taipei Times
All six of them are to be deprived of their civil rights for two years.
The Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office said that Chang had illegally accessed the household registration system to help revise and verify a list of members of the KMT in Keelung, removing the names of deceased party members and updating addresses.
The data were used to aid the recalls targeting Democratic Progressive Party city councilors Cheng Wen-ting (鄭文婷) and Jiho Tiun (張之豪), prosecutors said.
Wu ordered local party officials to forge 1,063 petition signatures in the campaigns, prosecutors said.
Eight others who were involved in the case were granted deferred prosecution for admitting to forgery and misusing personal data, prosecutors said.
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