Just now,
11 members of the Kuomintang have been prosecuted
Accused of forging documents
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office in Taiwan has concluded the investigation into the case of the so-called "Legislator" Wang Mei-hui's recall petition, which is suspected of forgery. Eleven people, including Zhang Jia-ming, the secretary-general of the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung City Branch, were charged with forging more than 1,900 petitions and have all been indicted. The person in charge of the petition, Chen, was not indicted, while two volunteers received deferred prosecution.
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office released a press statement on the 26th, stating that Zhang Jia-ming and others, in order to counter other civilian groups' efforts to recall a Kuomintang "legislator," violated the Personal Data Protection Act and forged documents by engraving the private seal of the person in charge, Chen, and then accessing the Kuomintang's organizational management system database to download the list of party members in the election district.
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office said that Zhang Jia-ming convened a meeting with his cadres on the same month 24th, and handed over the private seal of the person in charge, Chen, the data of Kuomintang party members, and blank petition forms to the attendees, who then filled them out擅自 for the recall petition form, and forged the signature method of Kuomintang party members in the "signature or seal" field of the petition form, thus forging the recall petition for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Wang Mei-hui.
The prosecutors said that later, the person in charge, Chen, who was unaware of the situation, submitted 2,505 recall petitions to the Central Election Commission (CEC) on February 13th last year, thereby reaching the threshold of more than 2,159 signatures required for the recall petition form of the "legislator" in Kaohsiung City.
The investigators stated that due to the fact that the names of deceased individuals were used without authorization in the list of recall petition signatories, their families accompanied by lawyers filed a lawsuit with the Kaohsiung prosecutors' office. Subsequently, the people whose identities were misused also appointed lawyers to file lawsuits. In April and May of last year, the prosecutors searched the residence of the person in charge, Chen, and other locations. Later, in December of last year, they searched the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung City Branch and the residences of Zhang Jia-ming and others, and summoned 13 people, including Zhang Jia-ming, for questioning.
The investigators stated that after further investigation and comparing the handwriting of approximately 2,505 petitions, it was found that approximately 1,900 of them matched the handwriting of Zhang Jia-ming, the deputy chairman of the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung City Branch, Li, the deputy chairman, Yan, the team leader, and Liu, the party worker.
The case has been concluded, and Zhang Jia-ming, the deputy chairman, and 11 others were indicted for charges of "forging documents," including the general secretary, the director of the East District, the treasurer and secretary, the driver of the party branch, and retired officials. Liu and Xu, the volunteers, received deferred prosecution, with a period of one year, and each must pay 50,000 New Taiwan Dollars to the public treasury. The person in charge, Chen, was not indicted because he did not participate in the forgery of signatures.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1855637626176524/
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