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進入《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 Officials jailed for bribes
Farglory Land Development Co chairman Chao Teng-hsiung is pictured in this undated file photograph. Photo: Lin Mei-fen, Taipei Times
The Taipei District Court yesterday sentenced former Taoyuan county deputy commissioner Yeh Shih-wen （葉世文） to a jail term of 19 years and Farglory Land Development Co （遠雄建設） chairman Chao Teng-hsiung （趙藤雄） to four-and-a-half years on corruption charges involving two government-sponsored low-cost housing projects.
Yeh is also required to pay a fine of NT$33.17 million （US$1.06 million）, while Chao must pay a NT$900,000 fine.
Former Farglory vice president Wei Chun-hsiung （魏春雄） was given a four-year term and a fine of NT$500,000 for his role in bribing government officials to secure contracts for real-estate development projects.
Tsai Jen-hui （蔡仁惠）, a former National Taipei University of Technology professor who acted as a “white glove” to transfer the money, was given a lighter sentence of six months and a fine of NT$200,000 because he had cooperated with the investigation and acted as a witness for the prosecution.
The guilty verdict is a fall from grace for Chao, one of the nation’s most high-profile and successful real-estate tycoons, and also for Yeh, who at the time of his arrest last year was the second-in-command to John Wu （吳志揚）, then-Taoyuan county commissioner of the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT）.
Previously, Yeh headed up the Construction and Planning Agency （CPA）, where he allegedly earned a reputation for questionable ethics, before his appointment as Taoyuan County deputy commissioner in July last year.
According to the ruling, Yeh was found to have received a total of NT$20 million in bribes when he was in charge of Taoyuan’s projects to build low-cost housing in Linkou （林口） and Bade （八德） districts.
Yeh is also being investigated for bribery in two other real-estate development projects that came under his supervision as a government official.
Yesterday’s verdicts can be appealed.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
