Collecting cash, gold, and buying a 40 million luxury house. The most greedy person was slapped in the face when the IRS audited him and asked for a suspension of custody.

Wang Zhiyi, a former auditor of the National Taxation Bureau of the Central District of the Ministry of Finance, was suspected of colluding with accountants to evade taxes on behalf of companies, accepting bribes and travel entertainment, and also found 12.8 million yuan in cash, gold, and 43.4 million yuan in luxury house transactions. He was indicted by the prosecutor for corruption and other crimes. He recently requested to stop being detained. The Taichung District Court found that he was involved in a felony, his son had been in the United States for a long time, he was likely to flee abroad, and there were concerns about collusion to destroy evidence. The ruling was rejected.

65-year-old Wang Zhiyi once served as the chief of the second inspection section of the Central District State Taxation Bureau, and successively served as the head of the inheritance tax team and the sales tax team of the Comprehensive Office. In February 2025, he was promoted to a simple auditor. However, he was suspected of using his tax audit power to collude with accountants and business owners to evade income tax or penalties for profit-making enterprises, with the amount amounting to 25.29 million yuan each. , 56.91 million yuan, and also accepted banquets, entertainment trips to the United States, and 5.6 million yuan in bribes from the industry. Since May this year, the inspection team has launched 6 waves of searches and seized 12.8 million yuan in cash, 5 pieces of gold, each weighing 1 tael, and 200,000 yuan worth of gift certificates and delivery coupons from Mr. Wang’s residence and bank safes.

In addition, in September 2025, Wang Zhiyi signed a contract to purchase a pre-sale luxury house in Nantun District, Taichung City, with a total price of 43.4 million yuan, in September 2025, and has paid a down payment of 5 million yuan. According to statistics, Wang Zhiyi is suspected of accepting banquets, air tickets to the United States, and Illegal benefits such as accommodation, cash and gift certificates amounted to approximately 6.81 million yuan, and there was another 12.8 million yuan in cash, gold, house purchase money and other property with unknown sources. The case was also concluded and prosecuted on September 22 and will be heard by the National Court of the Taichung District Court.

After Wang Zhiyi was transferred to trial, he was ordered to be detained and barred. He recently applied to stop the detention. The judge considered that he denied committing the crime in court, and some of the witnesses were IRS personnel. They had supervisory and subordinate relationships with him in the past and may still be affected by it. In addition, Wang's eldest son has been studying in the United States for a long time. He himself also has a record of traveling to the United States and may not return overseas. The judge determined that the barred detention is still necessary and rejected the petition.