Kuomintang Congressman Li Fu Zhongwu was involved in fraudulently claiming 9.77 million in assistant fees. He pleaded guilty at the trial and asked for a suspended sentence.

KMT Taipei City Councilor Li Fu Zhongwu, who has dominated Taipei City for four consecutive years, involved his wife Lin Jinli, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, uncle-in-law, nephew, uncle-in-law, daughter-in-law and other relatives to fraudulently receive assistant subsidies through the methods of "capital assistant" and "low salary and high report". In 15 years, he has fraudulently received more than 9 770,000. The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office concluded an investigation in July and charged Li Fu and other seven people with taking advantage of their positions to defraud property and causing public servants to publish false information. The Taipei District Court held its first trial today. Li Fu and other seven people all pleaded guilty in court and requested a lighter sentence and a suspended sentence.

The seven people indicted include Li Fu Zhongwu, his wife and the CEO of his parliamentary office Lin Jinli, his wife's sister Lin Jinying, his mother-in-law Lin Chen Yuxiu, his nephew Chen Kunhong, his wife's uncle Lin Jinsheng, and his wife's daughter-in-law Zhou Caihong; among them Lin Chen Yuxiu, who is 80 years old and has hard of hearing, was supported by her co-workers, sister Lin Jinli and others. During the court hearing, the lawyer not only fought for a suspended sentence for her, but also hoped that the restrictions on leaving the country could be lifted so that her family could take her abroad to relax.

Li Fu Zhongwu only confessed his guilt personally in court today, and the rest was defended by his lawyer. The lawyer pointed out that Li Fu Zhongwu will bear the obligation to return and confiscate all 9.77 million yuan in criminal proceeds on behalf of all the defendants. During the investigation, Li Fu has paid back more than 9.5 million yuan.

Since the prosecutor ordered Li Fu Zhongwu to post a bail of 3.5 million yuan during the investigation, the lawyer specifically asked the judge if it was possible to reduce the amount of the bail and use part of the refund to repay the proceeds of crime. However, the judge said that the bail was used to secure subsequent trials and executions, and confiscation are two different things, and Li Fu was asked to think of other repayment methods. The judge ordered that another preparatory court session be held to confirm the defendants' fraudulent income and actual work wages.

The Beijing Prosecutor's Office alleges that Li Fu Zhongwu has been re-elected as the 11th to 14th Taipei City Mountain Aboriginal Councilor since 2010, Lin Jinli is actually in charge of the office's personnel and finance, and Lin Jinying is responsible for the accounting. He has successively named his mother-in-law Lin Chen Yuxiu and her nephew Chen Kunhong were responsible for making false employment letters and assistant change information, and reported publicly funded assistants to the Taipei City Council. They misled the Taipei City Council into approving monthly salaries and Spring Festival consolation payments, and fraudulently received a total of more than 5.76 million yuan.

In addition, although Zhou Caihong and Lin Jinsheng actually worked as assistants, they were involved in fraudulently receiving public funds through "low salary and high reporting". Zhou Caihong actually received 29,100 or 39,000 yuan per month, but declared a monthly salary of 60,000 yuan; Lin Jinsheng actually received 10,000 to 15,000 yuan, but declared 29,000 to 35,000 yuan, fraudulently receiving more than 4 million yuan. A total of 9,771,081 yuan was fraudulently obtained through the two methods.