Taitung County Government's case of pros and cons of widening Jianhe Farm Road, prosecutors requested to postpone the detention of Xu Jiahao and three others

Taitung County Government's case on the pros and cons of widening Jianhe Farm Road. (Photo by reporter Huang Mingtang)

The Taitung District Prosecutor's Office and the Taitung County Investigation Station of the Bureau of Investigation launched a search at the end of July this year to investigate the Taitung County Government's Agriculture Department's handling of the widening of agricultural roads in the Jianhe area for profit, and the investment of Speaker Wu Naihua's family in Dongying Resort. They detained the county's Agriculture Department Director Xu Jiahao, former section chief Cai Minghan, and Speaker Wu Xiuhua's assistant Qiu Jiaping , two of them, Xu and Tsai, will be detained for two months, and the detention period will expire on the 3rd. The Taitung District Prosecutor's Office considers that there are still key suspects in the case who have not yet arrived, and there are still concerns about evidence collusion, destruction of evidence, and escape during the original detention. It has officially filed a petition with the Taitung District Court to extend their detention, which is currently being heard by the court.

The task force on this case originally planned to conclude the investigation quickly, but it happened to be during the session of the Taitung County Council. According to law, if you want to subpoena or interview the members involved in the case, you must obtain the consent of the council or the parties involved, which temporarily hindered the investigation. The investigation therefore decided to suspend relevant subpoenas and is expected to wait until the end of the regular county council meeting in mid-October before fully restarting the next round of interviews and investigation operations.