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the taipei district prosecutors office (hereinafter referred to as the taipei prosecutors office) is investigating the jinghuacheng scandal. in order to find out the unknown financial flows of people's party chairman ko wen-je, on the 11th, it directed prosecutors and the taiwan authorities' "integrity commission" to search several branches of taiwan's "first bank" and other banks, and seized safe rental records and property related to ko wen-je's family members. according to green media reports, prosecutors seized hundreds of thousands of dollars (new taiwan dollars, the same below) in cash from several safes related to ko. as for who owns the safes, the prosecutors and the bank are unwilling to explain. after the news came out, the taipei prosecutors office said that it would not comment and could not confirm it.

the taiwan authorities' anti-corruption unit searched ko wen-je's home on august 30 and interviewed ko's wife chen pei-chi as a witness to verify that chen pei-chi deposited funds into her own and her three children's bank accounts through an atm. because she deposited the money after ko wen-je and ying hsiao-wei's lunchbox meeting, the anti-corruption unit suspected whether she had a consideration relationship with jinghua city. but chen pei-chi denied the bribe and testified that it was her father's inheritance, ko's speaking fees, and royalties, but the taiwan anti-corruption unit did not believe it. in addition, the anti-corruption unit searched and seized ko wen-je's usb flash drive, which had a record of "2022/11/1 xiao shen 1500 shen qingjing", which was also suspected by the prosecutors to be a bribe. ko wen-je will be interrogated in the near future to verify the flow of funds.

in order to find out the financial flows of ko wen-je's family, the taipei district prosecutors' office not only questioned ko wen-je for the first time on the 10th, but also applied for multiple search warrants from the taipei district court, directing prosecutors and anti-corruption officers to go to several government-owned bank branches such as taiwan first bank to seize several safe deposit box rental records and property. according to reports from the green media, prosecutors seized the property in the safe deposit boxes, including millions of dollars in cash, and brought them back to the taipei district prosecutors' office, where they will question ko wen-je to find out the source of the suspicious financial flows in these safe deposit boxes.

in response to this, the secretary general of the people's party, zhou yuxiu, said helplessly in an interview that this is another so-called "taiwanese people's big case". it is a specific media again, and the northern district prosecutors office has refused to comment. the same situation has not improved. they said they would use his name to investigate the leak, but while they were investigating, the news was flying everywhere. "what we don't know, the specific media knows."

zhou yuxiu emphasized that in fact, they also expected the taipei prosecutors to come out and explain clearly at the beginning, and the key point is that the standards should be consistent. he mentioned that in 2008, when lai ching-te was the secretary-general of the democratic progressive party caucus, he said that he could not accept the judicial unit's investigation and handling of the case when facing the chen shui-bian case. he criticized the taiwan authorities at the time for detaining people for confessions and detaining people as tainted witnesses, which was a full insult to chen shui-bian, and that the investigation violated procedural justice and also hurt the judicial unit.

zhou yuxiu said that netizens would of course joke that it was due to "different time and space backgrounds", but if it was the same set of standards, it should be applicable everywhere, shouldn't it?

zhou yuxiu said that ko wen-je's decision not to post bail and not to appeal was actually made clear in the first detention hearing that if the prosecutor's conviction was already established, he would not embarrass the judge. he also said that this was a discussion between ko wen-je and his lawyer, and the people's party could not intervene, and no meeting was held on this matter.

(lin jingxian, strait herald reporter in taiwan)