Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe has been detained and banned for corruption. As of the 7th, the legal team has not filed a protest. It is understood that most of the past protests filed by defendants will be rejected. Therefore, Ke Wenzhe’s legal team is still studying t

Taiwan People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe has been detained and banned for corruption. As of the 7th, the legal team has not filed a protest. It is understood that most of the past protests filed by defendants will be rejected. Therefore, Ke Wenzhe's legal team is still studying the strategy carefully and is very cautious about the reasons for the protest. , since the protest period is 10 days from the time the ruling is served, the legal team is expected to file a protest with the Taiwan High Court as soon as this week, but the legal community believes that the protest is unlikely to succeed.

Ke Wenzhe has been involved in six major cases, namely the Beijing City Floor Area Ratio Case, the False Account Case of Political Donations, the Beishike Land Rights Case, the No. 1 Fruit, Vegetable and Fish Wholesale Market Renovation Case, the Nangang Transfer Station BOT Case, and the Tai Chi-Kuang Police Surveillance Case. The utensil cases are all investigated by the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office. Since the prisoners are in custody, the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office is under pressure to handle the case. The focus of the investigation is still focusing on the Jinghua City case. The profit-making part of Ke Wenzhe's active involvement in the Jinghua City case has been clarified. The next focus is on collecting evidence for the crime of accepting bribes in violation of duties. To strengthen, we do not rule out the possibility of interrogating Ke Wenzhe for the first time this week.

It is understood that the Taiwan authorities’ Independent Commission Against Corruption found a USB flash drive at Ke Wenzhe’s residence, which read “2022/11/1 Xiao Shen 1500 Shen Qingjing”. The prosecutor believed that this was evidence that Ke Wenzhe had an appointment with Shen Qingjing to accept bribes. How to find the cash flow in the future to prove that Ke Wenzhe violated his duties and accepted bribes is the top priority for prosecutors in the follow-up investigation. The prosecutor has initially grasped the relevant cash flow and will carefully cross-check and compare the correlation. Shen Qingjing will be questioned in court to incite rebellion. Turn a tainted witness.

There are five defendants in custody in the Jinghua City scandal. Currently, in addition to Ko Wenzhe, former Taipei City Deputy Mayor Peng Zhensheng, Weiking Group Chairman Shen Qingjing, Taipei City Councilor Ying Xiaowei and assistant Wu Shunming have all filed protests. The Taiwan High Court all the day before yesterday The rejection is confirmed. Even if Ke Wenzhe files a protest, the success rate is very slim.

Legal experts pointed out that it is unlikely that the defendant will successfully appeal after being detained. Unless the lawyer team can point out obvious flaws in the procedure or obvious contradictions in the substantive reasons, the second instance judge will usually support the first instance and want to The success rate of reversing the situation and sending it back for correction is very low.

People in the legal field said that as long as the prosecutor can "explain" to the judge in the detention court that the defendant's criminal suspicion is serious and there is no risk of collusion and destruction of evidence, he can pass the review. This is different from the fact that after prosecution, the prosecutor must "strictly prove" that the defendant is guilty. There is no comparison at all, which is the main reason why most of the defendants' protests are dismissed.

Straits Herald Taiwan Correspondent Lin Jingxian