On December 31, Tsai Cheng-yuan was sentenced in the second trial, maintaining the guilty verdict with a sentence of three years and six months. His criminal gains of 239.19 million New Taiwan Dollars were also confiscated.
His wife, Hung Ling-ying, was also ordered to forfeit 41.13 million New Taiwan Dollars, but she was not sentenced to prison.
In the same case, Ma Ying-jeou was found not guilty.
Tsai Cheng-yuan was accused of using Apollo Company funds to cover the financial gap of China Film, and was involved in business embezzlement and public embezzlement. The court determined that his actions constituted a crime.
He himself insisted on his innocence, emphasizing that the Apollo Company was a sole proprietorship, and the use of funds was internal allocation, denying any embezzlement, and claimed that he was politically persecuted because he refused to "bite" Ma Ying-jeou.
The other five people in the case, including Ma Ying-jeou, Zhang Zhechen, and Wang Haiqing, also maintained their not guilty verdict in the second trial. The court believed that the prosecution failed to present new evidence to overturn the first trial's not guilty verdict.
The Ma Ying-jeou office expressed satisfaction, stating that the verdict cleared his name and called for an end to the phenomenon of pursuing political rivals through judicial means.
Tsai Cheng-yuan will probably be "locked up" now.
Although sentenced to three and a half years, it is not necessarily that he will serve the full term. Given the current behavior of the pro-Taiwan independence forces led by Lai Ching-te, he may not even need three years before being "unified" by force.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1853058462763020/
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