Former major general of Taiwan army was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes, claiming to burn 20 million yuan at a relative's house

Source: Global Times

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] On the 10th, a former major general of the Taiwan Army was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes of nearly 30 million yuan ( NT , the same below). He claimed that he was "fearing that his family would know" and burned 20 million yuan at his relatives' house.

According to Taiwan's Yahoo Qimo News report on the 10th, Zhang Dawei, the former major general of the Engineering Camp Production Division of Taiwan's "Arms Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense", relied on the back door to let Taiwan's "China Engineering Company" win the bid when he was handling a construction project of the camp area. The company asked for 45 million yuan in bribes, and he himself got 28 million yuan. Although Zhang pleaded guilty, he said that the company offered bribes on his own initiative, and claimed that the agreed amount was only 30 million yuan. He also said that he had "never seen so much money" and was afraid that his family would know about it, so he kept the money at home. After learning that he was being targeted by the court, he burned 20 million yuan in the golden furnace of a relative's house.

Taiwan Zhongshi News Network previously stated that recently, the Taiwan military has frequently reported fraud cases against senior officials-in addition to the above-mentioned cases, Chen Qilin, the engineering staff officer of the "Political Warfare Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense", was supervising the "New Construction Project of the Logistics Area of ​​the Taipei Municipal School". During the period, a total of items worth more than 180,000 yuan were received; Colonel Huang Guofeng, former director of the Education and Training Center of Taiwan's "National Defense University", carried military lunch boxes and rations privately in June 2021, suspected of embezzling military items. (Lee Yao)