The Control Yuan late last month impeached High Court justice Chen Yung-sung (陳勇松) due to delays in court procedures and failure to extend electronic monitoring of convicted businessman Chung Wen-chih (鍾文智), who jumped bail and fled the country to evade serving a prison term.
The Supreme Court on March 12 sentenced Chung, chairman of Mo Tan Li International Investment Co, to 30 years and six months in prison for fraud in stock trading and manipulating Taiwan depositary receipts of five companies, making NT$441.3 million (US$14.23 million) in profit, in a case dating back to 2010.
He was originally sentenced in 2021 to 18 years in prison on five counts of manipulating stock prices, contravening the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法), and two counts of money laundering. He appealed, resulting in a 17-year-and-six-month sentence, which he sought to reduce at the Supreme Court.
Photo: Fang Wei-li, Taipei Times
Chung skipped bail after the March ruling, and is believed to have fled the country.
He was originally released on NT$80 million bail in 2018, and required to regularly report to local police and wear an electronic monitoring device.
However, the High Court failed to extend the electronic monitoring after the expiration of the original order.
After he absconded, a Control Yuan investigation found that Chen had for unknown reasons decided not to extend the electronic monitoring, and failed to follow court procedures in issuing an official ruling notice to the defendant and the prosecutor in charge, for the ruling to take effect, while also not fulfilling requirements such as filing required documentation relating to the case.
Control Yuan members issued the impeachment against Chen, citing serious infractions of the Judges Act (法官法), the governmental oversight body said in a statement, adding that his conduct led to the public losing trust in the nation’s justice system.
The members also recommended issuing a financial penalty against Chen, it said.
The impeachment is to be forwarded for adjudication by the Judge Evaluation Committee, it said.
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