Lin Haolun, the then secretary of the Shilin District Prosecutor's Office, secretly filmed 21 female colleagues using the toilet and taking a shower a total of 82 times during his tenure. In July last year, he was sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The prosecutor also found that while he was serving as a stolen goods warehouse, he committed theft and misappropriated evidence that should be destroyed, and also secretly transferred and stored stolen goods. The private video evidence file of the victim was recorded and a separate prosecution was conducted. The first-instance court sentenced him to 5 years in prison for the crime of embezzlement of public property and obtaining electromagnetic records of an official computer without reason. Lin appealed, and the second-instance high court considered his guilty plea and donation to express remorse, and reduced the sentence to 4 years and six months in prison. Can be appealed.
Lin Haolun, who is serving his sentence, has not yet been brought to court for sentencing. The judgment pointed out that Lin Nan has served as the clerk of the prosecutor's stolen goods warehouse since March 2021, responsible for the safekeeping and destruction of items seized in criminal cases. He should have abided by his duties and ensured that the flow of evidence and the handling procedures were legal. However, he repeatedly abused his position and misappropriated evidence that should have been destroyed, including mobile phones, laptops, and pinhole cameras.
In addition to misappropriating physical exhibits, Lin Nan also took out the memory card and candid video files in the secret tampering case without authorization, copied and retained them at will, inflicting a second degree of infringement on the victim's privacy rights, and repeatedly committed acts of embezzlement and theft.
During the first-instance trial of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Lin argued that he suffered from "voyeurism" and committed the crime due to an impulse control disorder. He claimed that he had received treatment and his impulses had subsided, and he deeply regretted his behavior. The defense lawyer argued that Mr. Lin's behavior should be a crime of misappropriation of non-public property, and that the criminal proceeds were less than 50,000 yuan. He had confessed and returned the stolen goods, and requested the court to reduce the sentence and give him a chance of probation.
However, the judge did not accept the decision and found that Mr. Lin repeatedly abused his position and authority, misappropriated evidence that should be destroyed without authorization, and once again damaged the victim's sexual privacy rights. The means and consequences of the crime were not minor. He repeatedly committed embezzlement behavior, had a weak concept of the rule of law, and shaken the people's trust in the fairness and integrity of the judicial system. There was no reason for commutation, and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In Lin's previous candid filming case, he installed a micro-pinhole camera in the restrooms of the Shilin District Prosecutor's Office Investigation Building for a long time, secretly filming female colleagues changing clothes, bathing and other private scenes. He secretly filmed 21 women a total of 82 times in 3 years. In July last year, the Supreme Court sentenced him to 3 years and 6 months in prison for "recording sexual images without reason" and other crimes. He was also sentenced to a fine of 1 year and has been sentenced to prison.
