Tiandao League American Eagle Association cadres were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for extorting family members of disabled employees
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- When Li Zhewei, a cadre of the Tiandao Alliance American Eagle Association, was running a car wash in Zhongshan District, Taipei, he used various false reasons to extort the salary of a mentally and physically disabled employee named Su.
- He also expanded the extortion of his father who suffered from Parkinson's disease and his younger siblings who were in elementary school.
- He extorted nearly 600,000 yuan in one year.
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Why It Matters
The family of an employee surnamed Su lives in a small apartment in Zhongshan District. The source of income depends entirely on his mother's job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant and subsidies from low-income households. In order to reduce the family's financial burden, the employee went to work at a car wash.
Li Zhewei, a cadre of the Tiandao League American Eagle Association, operates a "very evil mobile car wash" near Linsen North Road and Jinxin Building in Zhongshan District. Unexpectedly, he exploited an employee surnamed Su who had a handicap certificate. In addition to making up a clever excuse to extort money from him, he also tricked Su's younger brother and sister into elementary school and Su's father, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, and extorted nearly 600,000 yuan in one year. Li Zhewei and five other people were indicted by the prosecutor for organized crime and other crimes. The Taipei District Court today sentenced Li Zhewei to six years and three months in prison for organized crime and other crimes, of which he was fined for the September part. Can be appealed.
Su Nan is only 23 years old and comes from a poor family. The family lives in an apartment of less than ten square meters in Zhongshan District. The main source of income is Su's mother working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant and struggling to survive through her status as a low-income household. In order to reduce the burden on his family, Su Nan came to work at a car wash shop run by Li Zhewei.
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Unexpectedly, this job was the beginning of Su Nan's nightmare. Li Zhewei always used various false excuses such as "washing the bus" and "scratching the paint" to severely deduct Su Nan's salary. Su Nan only received nearly half of the originally negotiated monthly salary of 28,000 yuan.
Not only that, at the end of the job, Li Zhewei directly refused to pay his salary, and even used a machete to attack Su Nan who was asking for salary. Later, he forced Su's father and Su's mother to sign four promissory notes of 500,000 yuan, and went to the store where Su's father worked to ask the boss to withhold 10,000 yuan of salary from him.
On October 10, 2024, Li Zhewei instigated his younger brother to force Su Nan, Su's father, and Su's brother and Su's sister who were still studying in elementary school to a car wash. He beat Su's father and forced Su's mother to get money to redeem them. Su's mother rushed to the scene from a Japanese restaurant and was forced to use an ATM card to withdraw the remaining 3,000 yuan in cash in her account.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Li Zhewei will appeal and the judicial process will enter the second instance.
Very likely · Within months
Victims’ families may apply for state compensation or social assistance
Likely · Within weeks
Open Questions
- Whether Li Zhewei has committed any other crimes that have not been prosecuted
- Is the car wash still operating?
- Whether the victim’s family received state compensation or social welfare assistance
- Have other members involved been prosecuted or sentenced?
