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people's party chairman ko wen-je and former taipei city deputy mayor peng zhen-sheng were suspected of the jinghua city scandal and were applied for detention and no-contact by the taipei district prosecutor's office for the crime of accepting bribes and seeking benefits in violation of their duties. the taipei district court held a detention hearing on the evening of september 1 and questioned the two people successively until around 0:40 on the 2nd. the judge finally ruled: ko wen-je was released without bail and peng zhen-sheng was detained and no-contact. peng zhen-sheng will be handcuffed by the prosecutors and sent to the taipei detention center.

ko wen-je was searched by prosecutors and the anti-corruption department at 7 a.m. on august 30, and went to the anti-corruption department at noon to explain the situation. during this period, ko wen-je refused to be interrogated at night and was arrested by the prosecutor in court. his application for retrial was rejected. the prosecutor applied for detention after another court hearing. until the detention court was held on the evening of september 1, he was interrogated and detained for 59 hours.

the taipei prosecutors and anti-corruption department found that shen qingjing, chairman of the weijing group, bribed taipei city councillor ying xiaowei with more than nt$47.4 million in order to pass the jinghua city volume case, and the whereabouts of other funds are unknown. at the same time, it is suspected that ko wen-je's two unknown fund flows totaling nt$1.7 million in 2019-2020 and 2023, as well as peng zhensheng's abnormal fund flow of nearly nt$1 million in 2023, have an unknown consideration relationship with the jinghua city case.

although ke wenzhe's wife chen pei-chi claimed that the money was her father's inheritance and ke wenzhe's speaking fees and royalties, and peng zhensheng's wife xie xia-qiao also confirmed that it was her husband's income from consulting, speaking and reviewing pictures for several companies after retirement, and that it had nothing to do with the viking group, the prosecutors and the anti-corruption department did not believe it. the taipei district prosecutors' office applied for the detention and prohibition of seeing the two on suspicion of violating their duties to accept bribes and seek benefits.

the taipei district court held a detention hearing at 8 pm on september 1. the judge first questioned ke wenzhe. ke wenzhe denied all the criminal facts that the prosecutor applied for detention, arguing that he had not benefited from the weijing group or accepted bribes, and that the unknown funds accused by the prosecutor had nothing to do with the weijing group. in addition, peng zhensheng also denied the prosecutor's allegations of benefiting from and accepting bribes. after questioning ke wenzhe and peng zhensheng, the judge made a ruling together.