On the night before the election on the 25th, the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office directed the police and investigators to Jiali District to seize a village chief candidate surnamed Chen who bought tickets with cash and charged the candidate for the village chief.

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[Reporter Wang Junzhong/Tainan Report] Several prosecutors from the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office formed a task force and directed the Nanshi Police Jiali Branch and the Investigation Bureau to search for a candidate named Chen and Zhuang Chen in Jiali District on the 25th. Wait for 5 strongholds and summon 20 voters.

The prosecution found out that the candidate surnamed Chen was involved in buying tickets in cash, with 2,000 yuan per vote. After the hearing, he charged the candidate to the court;

Southern prosecutor Lin Rongxuan, Su Rongzhao, Shi Yinhong, Huang Xinyong, Xu Huawei, Guo Shuming, Sun Yuqi, Wu Zirong, Cai Baida, Wang Yucheng, Huang Qingwei, Lu Shuwen, Lin Xiaoshuang and others jointly formed a special case team and commanded the Nanshi Police Station Jia The Li Branch, the Nanshi Investigation Office of the Investigation Bureau, the Nanfang Mobile Workstation, and the Prosecutors of the Black Gold Team of the South Inspection and Inspection Bureau went to 5 places including the residence of a candidate for the village head in Jiali District with the search ticket, and summoned the candidate for the head of the village. person, one person surnamed Chen Zhuangjiao and 20 voters to clarify the case.

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The prosecution found out that in November this year, the candidate surnamed Chen handed cash to Zhuangjiao Chen in order to be elected smoothly, and then Zhuangjiao Chen distributed 2,000 NT dollars to each household as consideration. For 3 voters surnamed Ding, 2 voters received items such as American ginseng or sore patches handed over by the candidate surnamed Chen through the pile of feet surnamed Chen.

The candidate surnamed Chen also personally delivered 2,000 yuan to a voter surnamed Li on November 22, entrusting the voter surnamed Li to transfer it to his son who has the right to vote, and agreed that they would vote for the candidate surnamed Chen on November 26. Attempts to influence election results.

After interrogation by the prosecutor, he believed that the candidate surnamed Chen was involved in the crime of voting bribery under Article 99, Item 1 of the Public Official Election and Recall Act, and that he was in danger of fleeing, colluding with accomplices, and witnesses. In the early morning of November 26, After being arrested in court, he applied to the Tainan District Court for detention without seeing him; in addition, Zhuangjiao, surnamed Chen, was given a bond of 30,000 yuan.

Ye Shuwen, Chief Prosecutor of the Southern Procuratorate, said that although today is the polling day, the Southern Procuratorate will continue to strictly investigate election bribery or any illegal activities, and also appeals to the public if they have received evidence that candidates have bribed elections or illegal activities directly or through others. Afterwards, they were still able to report by telephone, fax, letter, email, etc., and the report of bribery was seized, and the reward was as high as 10 million yuan.