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Popular Party Chairman Huang Guochang said he did not know Zhang Zhaolong, a suspect involved in election strikes and public welfare embezzlement.

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Popular Party Chairman Huang Guochang said he did not know Zhang Zhaolong, a suspect involved in election strikes and public welfare embezzlement.

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People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang said that he did not know Zhang Zhaolong, the former deputy spokesman of the New Taipei City Party Headquarters of the People's Party.
The latter was suspected of embezzling carrot cakes and handing out one-dollar cash.
He was detained by the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office on suspicion of violating the election law and criminal law and public welfare embezzlement.

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Zhang Zhaolong was the deputy spokesperson of the People’s Party’s New Taipei City Party Headquarters and the CEO of Hua Ci Chenxi Sheltered Works. He is now running for New Taipei City Council as a non-party member. He is suspected of misappropriating carrot cakes with a market price of 120 yuan from the sheltered workshops and distributing carrot cakes and one dollar in cash in the name of community development association activities.

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People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang. (Photo by reporter Chen Yikuan)

Zhang Zhaolong, former deputy spokesperson of the People’s Party New Taipei City Party Headquarters and CEO of Hua Ci Chenxi Sheltered Works, who is now running for New Taipei City Council as an independent, was involved in misappropriating carrot cakes with a market price of 120 yuan from the sheltered workshops. In his constituency, including Linkou, Wugu, Taishan and other community development associations, he used the name of the event During the protest, more than 900 carrot cakes and one dollar in cash were handed out. The day before yesterday, the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office ordered police dispatchers to divide into six groups to launch a search and interview. After the interrogation, he was charged with violating the election law and the criminal law and embezzling public interests, and there was a suspicion of conspiracy to destroy evidence. The New Taipei District Court yesterday ruled that Zhang Nan should be detained and banned. People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang said today (12th) that he did not know this person, emphasizing that Zhang has not participated in the operation of the People's Party after the 2022 election.

Huang Guochang attended the establishment of the party's North City Councilor Zhang Zhihao's campaign headquarters this morning. In an interview before the meeting, he said that he did not know Zhang Zhaolong at all, but he went to find out that Zhang seemed to have not participated in the activities of the People's Party headquarters after the 2022 local elections, and he was not a candidate nominated by the People's Party this time.

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Huang said that the Party Central Committee has transferred Zhang's violation of discipline to participate in the election to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for handling.

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The New Taipei District Court will decide whether Zhang Zhaolong will be released on bail or renewed in custody in a subsequent trial.
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The Central Committee of the Kuomintang will take disciplinary action against Zhang Zhaolong
Likely · Within weeks

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Did Zhang Zhaolong ever resell or use the appropriated carrot cakes for other purposes?
Will the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office further investigate whether Zhang Zhaolong is involved in other financial irregularities?
What will be the outcome of the disciplinary action against Zhang Zhaolong by the Central Committee of the People’s Party?

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