Well-known Internet celebrity "Santa Lawyer (Santa)" Li Yiyi was involved in the "Juxinhui" casket fraud group that defrauded the elderly of 160 million yuan. She was involved in leaking the secrets of the investigation records of the main suspect Wu Fangyi. After meeting with the lawyer, she notified the accomplice Chen Yongshan to sell gold jewelry and BMW cars. In the first instance, the Taipei District Court sentenced Li to 5 months in prison for money laundering and fined her 80,000 yuan. She was fined and sentenced to hard labor. After the case was appealed, the High Court held a hearing today. Li Yiyi, through his defense lawyer Chen Shaoxuan, proposed that he be willing to pay 200,000 yuan in public welfare funds as a condition, and asked the judge to give him a chance of probation.
Wu Fangyi and Lu Yingchan were involved in the casket investment fraud. They were searched by the prosecutors in April last year. Li Yiwen was entrusted by Wu's lawyer Zhao Haocheng to attend the interrogation. After Wu was detained and banned, Li relayed Wu's instructions in the LINE group and asked to sell her bracelets, rings and vehicles. She also said that Wu said she "must sell it because she is afraid that the car will be taken away".
Afterwards, Wu's girlfriend Chen Yongshan and Su Zai also followed Li Yiyi's instructions to help Wu's daughter get out of labor after meeting Zhao. In addition, Cai's department, after accompanying Lu to the interview, used LINE to inform Chen of the investigation contents such as Lu's involvement in the tomb fraud and detention. During the investigation, Li Yiyi pleaded guilty, but after being charged, he changed his words and denied the crime. He did not plead guilty until the third court session when the appointed lawyer was changed, and said that if he was found to have criminal proceeds, he was willing to return all the proceeds.
The first-instance judgment pointed out that Li Yiyi did not participate in the commission of the crime and should have assisted Chen and Wu's money laundering on the basis of intention. Li's actions should be considered to have assisted money laundering and she was sentenced to 5 months in prison. In the leaking part, Li was found not guilty because the evidence pointed out that she did not hand over any information or talk about the case to outsiders.
Lawyer Zhao Haocheng was found not guilty at first trial because there was no evidence that Chen and Su Zai were instructed by him to help Wu Nu get out of childbirth. Another lawyer, Cai Yuanyu, did reveal to Chen Yongshan that "he agreed to plead guilty" during the investigation of this case, and was sentenced to 5 months in prison for leaking secrets.
After the case was appealed, the High Court opened a hearing today. Chen Shaoxuan, Li Yiren's defense lawyer, argued that the prosecutors had no reason to appeal and Ms. Li had no subjective intention to conceal or conceal the money laundering proceeds from her crime. As for the leaking part, it involved a dispute over the application of the law. The prosecutors and the court of first instance had different legal opinions. Ms. Li confessed to the facts and asked the court to decide whether the leaking of secrets was involved.
Chen Shaoxuan further pointed out that Ms. Li had a confession, no criminal proceeds, no previous convictions, and the behavior involved money laundering. The purpose was not to help Wu Fangyi get out of business. However, the original judgment did not explain the reason for not granting a suspended sentence. Therefore, she appealed against the original sentence and requested a suspended sentence. She was willing to pay a public welfare fund of 200,000 yuan as a condition for suspended sentence.
Zhao Haocheng, who was acquitted in the first instance, said the prosecutor had no reason to appeal and respected the original verdict. Huang Yizhang, the defense lawyer for Cai Yuanyu, who was sentenced to five months in the first trial, said that there were major errors in the original trial's judgment on whether the confidentiality requirement was established, and that the original trial ignored evidence that was favorable to Cai and did not explain why it was not accepted.
In addition, since Li Yiyi's restriction on traveling abroad will expire on October 31, the judge then held an interrogation court. Chen Shaoxuan said that Li Yiyi has always confessed to the crime and paid a bail of 700,000 yuan, which was raised by his family, which should be enough to guarantee that he will not escape. The defendant died and all appeared in court on time. The original trial held that the defendant was not enough to help him escape from life and did not hinder the investigation. In addition, the sentence imposed by the original judgment would not cause a practicing lawyer to flee overseas. The second trial still had evidence to investigate, and there was no motive for fleeing.
The prosecutor said that it was necessary to extend the trip abroad. At the end of the court, the judge informed that the entire case would be reviewed by the collegial panel before notifying the result.
