There are only 3 days left before voting in the 9-in-1 election. According to the statistics of the Police Administration, all police agencies have made every effort to investigate bribery and curb violence before the election. As of yesterday, 329 bribery cases and 1,333 people have been seized and transferred to the prosecution.

(Photographed by reporter Qiu Junfu)

[Reporter Qiu Junfu/Taipei Report] There are only 3 days left before voting in the 9-in-1 election. According to the statistics of the Police Administration, all police agencies are doing their best to investigate bribery and curb violence before the election. As of yesterday, 329 cases of bribery and 1,333 people have been seized and transferred to the prosecution. A total of 15 cases and 29 people have been detained for bribery cases involving county mayors, county and city councilors, township mayor-level candidates and their footholds. The Hsinchu City Police Department has seized non-party mayoral candidate Huang Yuanfu for bribery cases involving fixed-term contracts. The prosecution was filed on the 15th of this month, which is the first case of election bribery for a county mayoral candidate in this election.

As for election violence cases, a total of 77 cases involving 113 persons were transferred, and 474 cases involving 593 persons were transferred for other election obstruction cases, including 42 cases involving election betting boards and 79 persons.

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The Police Administration stated that in order to strengthen local election investigations, director Huang Mingzhao took important cadres involved in bribery investigations to various municipalities, county and city police stations across the country to hold discussions on many occasions to guide the front-line investigations of bribery, and assigned six police officers. Committee members have successively visited counties and cities to strengthen supervision. In addition, in order to break down sensibilities and reduce local pressure, the field teams of the Criminal Bureau are responsible for allocating and supporting each election area, which has become a strong backing for the county and city police stations to investigate and handle election bribery cases.

According to statistics, at present, the police agencies across the country have collected 468 cases of bribery investigations, and transferred 329 cases and 1,333 people. A total of 128 cases involving election bribery involving candidates at the township and mayor level (4 at the county mayor level, 88 at the county and city councilor level, and 36 at the township mayor level), accounting for 27% of the total number of cases executed, of which 15 have been detained , 29 people.

In the high-profile election bribery case, the Hsinchu City Police Department seized mayor candidate Huang Yuanfu who used the patrol team to hold the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. Election bribery, a total of 17 people including candidates were transferred in the whole case.