Sisters were caught buying tickets together! Hualien Fenglin Town Deputy Huang Jingzhu and District Chief Huang Jingyi are detained and prohibited from seeing

The Hualien prosecutor's investigation into election bribery has made progress again. The Hualien District Prosecutor's Office recently received a tip that the non-party Fenglin town representative Huang Jingzhu and the neighborhood chief Huang Jingyi's sisters were both running for re-election. The prosecutors received a tip that the two people bought votes together and agreed to vote with voters in cash of 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan. The Hualien District Prosecutor's Office said today that the two defendants were detained by the prosecutor, and the district court ruled late last night that their detention was forbidden.

Sisters Huang Jingzhu and Huang Jingyi were suspected of buying votes together. Her sister Huang Jingzhu is the replacement town representative of this term, and she has been elected as a representative for three terms this term. Her younger sister Huang Jingyi has also been elected as the mayor of Fengzhili for two terms. Both of them will run for re-election at the end of the year. Due to the explosion in the election of the first district representative of the town, as many as 11 people registered to run, six people were elected, and two people competed for the mayor. Therefore, the sisters went to the grassroots together and bought votes together and were reported.

The prosecutor's investigation found that the two sisters were suspected of buying votes from voters in cash, ranging from 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan per vote, which was a crime of voting bribery in violation of the Public Employee Election and Removal Law. The whole case was led by Lin Yingzheng, prosecutor of the Hualien District Prosecutor's Office. Yesterday, together with the Fenglin Police Station and the Criminal Police Brigade's Science and Technology Investigation Team, they used prefectural search tickets to carry out searches at 7 locations including the residence of the sisters surnamed Huang, and brought back 2 defendants and a total of 7 witnesses.

After interrogation by the prosecutor, they believed that Huang Jingzhu and Huang Jingyi were involved in serious crimes and that they might collude with accomplices and witnesses. There were reasons and necessity for detention. They applied to the court for a detention prohibition, and the Hualien District Court approved the detention. As for the remaining witnesses, they were asked to return.

Hualien County has been accused by foreign media that "all the votes there are bought with money." In response, the Hualien District Prosecutor's Office has made every effort to investigate election bribery this year. The prosecutor also called on the public to make good use of the toll-free report hotline 0800-024099 if there is any information suspected of undermining the fairness of the election. After dialing, press 4. The prosecutor will adopt the highest confidentiality measures for the reporter's information. Once the case is found to be true, the report bonus will be issued in accordance with regulations.