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BackDPP spokesperson Lin Chuyin criticized the Beijing Municipal Government for its incompetence in governance: social workers embezzled elderly pensions, suppressed speech at night markets, and cut down green trees indiscriminately.
DPP spokesperson Lin Chuyin criticized the Beijing Municipal Government for its incompetence in governance: social workers embezzled elderly pensions, suppressed speech at night markets, and cut down green trees indiscriminately.
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DPP spokesperson Lin Chuyin criticized the Beijing Municipal Government for its incompetence in governance: social workers embezzled elderly pensions, suppressed speech at night markets, and cut down green trees indiscriminately.

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  • Jiang Yijie, a former social worker supervisor of the Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau, was detained for allegedly embezzling more than NT$12 million in pension funds from five supervised elders over many years.
  • DPP spokesperson Lin Chuyin criticized Chiang Wanan for his incompetence in governance, pointing out that from the failure of child care to the suppression of political speech at night markets and the indiscriminate cutting of more than 3,000 road trees, internal fraud prevention and control were paralyzed, and governance was completely incompetent.

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Why It Matters

Jiang Yijie, a former social worker supervisor at the Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau, was suspected of taking advantage of her position to embezzle more than NT$12 million in pension funds from five warded elders who were unable to manage their own property for more than a year. The case came to light during the handover of her resignation.

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The Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau was shocked to hear that a former social worker supervisor was suspected of embezzlement and embezzlement of more than 10 million yuan in pension funds from supervised elders over the years. In this regard, DPP spokesperson Lin Chu-yin criticized the Taipei City Government under the leadership of Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan for failing to take care of it "from childhood to old age". Internal fraud prevention and control were completely paralyzed, but externally, it used administrative machinery to extend its black hands into night markets to suppress public opinion, brutally cut down thousands of green trees, and went out of control in governance. The capital's municipal government was completely incompetent.

Jiang Yijie, a 38-year-old former social worker supervisor of the Elderly Welfare Section of the Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau, was suspected of taking advantage of his position during his tenure. For more than a year, he embezzled more than 12 million yuan from five warded elders who were unable to manage their own property. The elders' money was allowed to be misappropriated by social workers. The outside world questioned how the Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau monitored the situation on weekdays.

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Lin Chuyin pointed out that the elders under guardianship trusted the legal guardianship of the city government, but their life savings were "eaten alive" within the public service system. The whole case did not come to light until the personnel involved resigned and handed over. It also completely exposed the fact that the relevant internal control mechanisms of the city government had been completely paralyzed and were ineffective.

Lin criticized the tragedy of child abuse, the kindergarten sexual assault and child abuse scandal, the serial outbreak of nutritious lunches on campus and the suspicion of poisoning, and then the 6.1 million yuan in food safety fines turned into bad debts. Now, even the most vulnerable and helpless warded elders have had their life-saving money stolen by their own people. When Chiang Wanan governs the city, he cannot just use "strict and thorough investigation" as a slogan to shirk responsibility every time something goes wrong, and let Taipei citizens fall into the trap of failed city governance at every step from childhood to old age.

Lin Chuyin continued to point out that in addition to the failure of elderly care, the North Market Department has recently issued an official document to forcefully extend the control tentacles from the public market to the night market, prohibiting vendors from posting political posters. The night market is a business area where vendors operate autonomously. This move is basically an unlimited expansion of power under the guise of "administrative neutrality" in an attempt to suppress the "ocean current" and opposition voices of the people. The city government ignores business, but is eager to impose a martial law on ordinary people in the city. Selective enforcement of the law exposes the city government's guilty conscience.

Lin Chuyin said that what is even more ironic is that the Chiang City government keeps saying that it attaches great importance to the green environment. Recently, the old trees around the Dongmen Market that should have been properly transplanted were chopped up and removed due to serious negligence in construction and supervision. The city government was forced to call for punishment until it was kicked out by the outside world. From public information, it is even more surprising that Beijing City cut down more than 3,000 road trees from 2024 to 2025.

Finally, Lin Chuyin emphasized that the loss of care, the suppression of public opinion, and the indiscriminate cutting of trees have become the three major policy labels of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. If Jiang Wanan can only get angry and shirk responsibility afterwards, and cannot even provide the most basic social welfare care and democratic opening up, the citizens of Taipei will eventually cast aside him severely.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • The judicial authorities will prosecute Jiang Yijie and may investigate the liability of other relevant persons.

    Very likely · Within weeks

  • The Taipei City Social Affairs Bureau will face investigation and supervision requirements from the Legislative Yuan or the Supervisory Yuan

    Very likely · Within weeks

  • Night market vendors or citizen groups may file administrative lawsuits or protests against the city’s official ban on political posters

    Likely · Within months

Open Questions

  • Are the embezzlements in full or recoverable?
  • Why has the internal supervision mechanism of the Beijing Municipal Social Affairs Bureau failed for a long time?
  • Are there other similar cases that have gone undiscovered?
  • What is the specific legal basis for the city government’s control of night markets?

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