The officers of Sanmin Second Precinct, Renwu precinct, Fengshan Precinctand Lintuan precinct, Kaohsiung City Police Department and Pingtung CountyPolice Bureau allegedly involved in collective bribery.

• Publication Date： 2017-10-26
• Last updated：2018-11-01
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The AAC collaborated with the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office, the Tainan District Prosecutors Office, the Kaohsiung City Investigation Office, the Investigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice and the Southern Mobile Workstation to investigate the collective corruption of the police officers from different precincts of Kaohsiung City Police Department. The result of the investigation showed that a total of current and retired police officers, including a former administrative executive officer of Kaohsiung City Police Department, Li XX; a police officer of Sanmin second precinct, Ye XX; detectives of Renwu precinct, Jiang XX, Gao XX and Lu XX; police officers of the administration section, Lin XX and Zhuang XX; a police officer of Jioucyu Police Station, Xu XX; a police officer of the inspection section, Fongshan precinct, Chen XX; tahe sergeant of the Special Assignment Brigade, Xu XX; a police officer of Wunshan Police Station, Wu XX; a sergeant of the administration section, Linyuan precinct, Wang XX; sub-division chiefs of the public security section, Pintung County Police Department, Huang XX, Huang XX, Cai XX, Cai XX and Peng XX, who have accepted bribes from Li XX and other electronic playground industries in Kaohsiung or delivered the bribes to other police officers related to the gambling investigation as the considerations of harboring and exemption from the investigation during the period from March 2011 to October 2015. The amount of the alleged bribery was as high as TWD 26,903,000, including the bribes handed over by the “white gloves” or the amount of money from the deception and embezzlement on the operators. Except for the case which involved Li XX, Ye XX and Huang XX, which is still under investigation, the prosecution of one of the retired police officers was deferred,and the other officer still awaits the prosecutor’s investigation.The other involved police officers were sentenced to imprisonment varying from 2 to 21 years by the court of first instance in accordance with Article 4, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 5 of the Anti-Corruption Act. 15 operators involved in bribery were sentenced to deferred prosecution by the prosecutor. The involved police levels, number of police officers and the amount of bribery were extremely rare in the recent years. Apart from basic-level police officers, several middle-to-high levels police officers of the Kaohsiung City Police Department were involved in the case. Li XX in particular, was the chief of Sanmin Second Precinct when he was searched and detained. He was investigated and prosecuted for allegedly taking bribes and this showed an indicative significance for AAC’s determination to fight corruption and cleanse political corruption. Furthermore, different evidence and investigation techniques were successfully applied during the investigations such that the involved police officers and operators voluntarily made confessions and returned criminal proceeds. This consolidated criminal evidence, including TWD 5,730,000 criminal proceeds of Li XX; TWD 500,000 criminal proceeds of Lin XX; TWD 360,000 criminal proceeds of Peng XX; TWD 120,000 criminal proceeds of Ye XX; TWD 155,000 criminal proceeds of Chen XX; TWD 3,675,000 criminal proceeds of Huang XX and TWD 168,000 criminal proceeds of Su XX. The total amount was more than TWD 10,700,000. For the investigation of the alleged corruption of Li XX, the agents of AAC and the prosecutor referred to the regulations from Article 10 of the Anti-Corruption Act and identified that Li XX had been regularly receiving bribes from gaming operators since March, 2011 to December, 2012. As a result, the AAC has identified addifional fixed deposits, cash deposits, credit card paymetns, insurance payment amounts and foreign exchange expenditure records in financial accounts under the name of Li XX and his wife and children for the duration of three years, from March 2011 to January 2013. The amount from unknown sources was still TWD 11,117,164 after deduction of the salary income and bribery amounts received by Li XX. The prosecutor requested in the court trial proceedings that the defendant Li XX should provide certification to prove the legal source of his income. If not, the income from the unknown sources would be regarded as criminal proceeds pursuant to the regulations in Article 10 of the Anti-Corruption Act and be confiscated. This is to effectively implement the national current anti-corruption policies to thoroughly recover stolen money and confiscate criminal proceeds after the amendment for Article 38 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of China and implementation of the new confiscation policy from July 01, 2016.