This year's "nine-in-one" local elections will be held on November 28. The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has investigated 10 cases involving candidates involving bribery, and has prosecuted Zhang Zhaolong, the former New Taipei Deputy Spokesperson of the People's Party who ran for New Taipei City Council. The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has recently prosecuted three district councilors for violating the "Election and Recall of Public Officials Act" The candidates include Xie Qingyan, the current li chief of Zhonghe Minyouli from the Kuomintang, Liu Weicheng, a non-party candidate for Haishan li chief in Banqiao, Ye Xiuyi, a non-party candidate for Quantai li chief of Xinzhuang, and their relatives. Their bribery methods include entertaining voters to watch movies, giving gifts, and giving away 100 yuan in cash.
Among them, Xie Qingyan and his wife surnamed Lan were involved. Between August 1 and 5 this year, they first issued blue number plates to Li residents as identification cards for holding a meal event for the elderly at the Minyouli Activity Center in Zhonghe District on August 20. At 12 noon that day, Xie stated that they would distribute 100 yuan in cash for lunch boxes and hoped that Li People can support his re-election and shout "Tse Ching-yan! Frozen garlic!" etc. After the end, Lan Nu provided 200 100-yuan bills to two friends, and asked the two people to exchange the number plates for cash at the door of the activity center. Those who were not present could also ask those who were present to collect it on their behalf. A total of 9 people received it, and a total of 1,600 yuan was distributed including the portion collected on behalf of the recipient.
In another case, Liu Dezong, Liu Weicheng's father and political advisor to the Executive Yuan, obtained 118 tickets for the "Superman Resurrected" documentary sponsored by an unsuspecting association (the ticket price is about 29,500 yuan), and then instructed members of the campaign team to use a LINE group on May 12 to call on residents to sign up for a free movie screening event held at Chung Ho Universal Village Roadshow Studios; on May 1 Before the movie was screened on the 7th, Liu, his girlfriend surnamed Du, and others set up a reception table outside the screening hall to distribute movie tickets. After identifying the ticket takers one by one to see if they were residents, they handed each movie ticket worth 250 yuan to voters. During the period, Liu and his son also made a speech at the front desk of the cinema: "Please continue to support us, Liu Weicheng, and be our director on November 28."
The last case is that Ye Xiuyi has been distributing steamed buns, tea eggs, canned pineapples and other items with her stickers printed on them through a community owner meeting since December last year. By June this year, she also distributed gift bags containing plastic wrap, toothpaste, soy sauce, masks and other items (each bag has a market price of about 631 yuan) and other items many times in this community or another community. The three cases were respectively investigated by prosecutors Liu Jiayu, Qiu Shujie and Guo Enjia, who directed the New Taipei City Investigation Division of the Investigation Bureau, the New Taipei City Criminal Division, the New Taipei City Special Task Force of the Immigration Department, the prosecutorial affairs officer of the New Taipei Procuratorate Serious Case Support Center and the Xinzhuang Police Station, and prosecuted the three candidates for the district chief and related persons involved in the case.
