Pleaded guilty! Li Wenzong admitted to misappropriating funds from the Zhongwang Foundation to pay the salaries of People’s Party employees

Li Wenzong, former chairman of the Zhongwang Foundation, holds court today.

Former Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe was sentenced to 17 years in prison in the first instance for his involvement in Beijing City and political donation cases and appealed. After the case was appealed, the High Court today summoned Li Wenzong, the former chairman of the Zhongwang Foundation, and Li Wenjuan, the former head of the Muke Public Relations Company. Li Wenzong pleaded guilty to breach of trust involving the Zhongwang Foundation's payment of 8 million yuan in salary to People's Party employees. His lawyer added in court that Li Wenzong admitted that he misappropriated money from the Zhongwang Foundation to pay the salaries of four employees.

During his term of office, Ke Wenzhe and his old classmate Li Wenzong jointly used Muke Company and the People's Party political donation account to misappropriate more than 61.34 million yuan in the "Ke Wenzhe and President and Vice President Wu Xinying's political donation account" and misappropriated 8.27 million yuan of public funds from the Zhongwang Foundation to pay the salaries of campaign headquarters employees.

In the first trial of the Taipei District Court, in the political donation case, Ke Wenzhe was sentenced to 2 years and 3 years and 6 months respectively on two counts of public welfare embezzlement; in the Zhongwang Foundation case, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for breach of trust. Li Wenzong jointly committed the crime of public welfare embezzlement and breach of trust, and should be sentenced to 4 years and June; Li Wenjuan was guilty of public welfare embezzlement and commercial accounting law, and should be sentenced to 2 years and April; Duanmuzheng was sentenced to 1 year for forging documents.

After the case was appealed, when the High Court held its first hearing on September 8 this year, Li Wenzong's attitude softened and he advocated that the criminal facts and amount range should be properly defined. If the court further clarifies the scope of the determination, he would not rule out pleading guilty in this part in the future.

The High Court held a hearing today. Before Li Wenzong entered the court, he was asked whether he would plead guilty today. He expressed his guilty plea to the crime of breach of trust.

Lawyer Li Wenzong said in court today that Li Wenzong claimed innocence and denied committing the crime for public welfare embezzlement, but was willing to plead guilty to the breach of trust charge, which involved misappropriating money from the Zhongwang Foundation to pay the salaries of four employees.

Li Wenjuan, former head of Muke Public Relations Company.