Lin Huai (person in white), the president of the Changsha Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association of China, and others were involved in the 2020 general election by accepting funds from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China and helping the Kuomintang presidential candidate Han Guoyu and the Kuomintang to bribe elections. The High Court sentenced Lin to 3 years and February.

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[Reporter Wu Zhengfeng/Taipei Report] Lin Huai, president of the Changsha Association of Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprises in China, and others were involved in collecting funds from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China in 2019. In the 2020 election, vote for the Kuomintang presidential candidate Han Guoyu and vote for the Kuomintang for the legislative party.

Lin Huai was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison by the Taipei District Court in the first instance for violating the law on the election and recall of presidents and vice presidents. In the second instance, after pleading guilty, the High Court changed his sentence to three years and two months and deprived him of public rights for four years. Probation; appeal available.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council asks for funding to vote for Han Guoyu and the KMT

The prosecution pointed out that Huang Daonian, director of the Economic Division of the Taiwan Affairs Office of Changsha City, Hunan Province, China, provided financial support to Lin Huai before Taiwan's 2020 presidential election, and jointly organized the "Year-end for Taiwan Compatriots in Hunan Province" in Changsha City and other Taiwanese business associations in Hunan Province. "Wei Ya Friendship Association" and "Hunan Province Taiwan Compatriots Returning Home Vote Mobilization Conference" hinted that Taiwanese businessmen who voted for Han Guoyu and the Kuomintang would receive a return subsidy of 1,500 yuan, which is almost the full amount of the air ticket, for a total of four Six or seven people applied.

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The first-instance judgment pointed out that Lin Huai provided voters with a 1,500-yuan air ticket subsidy in order to win the election of Han Guoyu and increase the seats of the KMT's non-regional legislators.

Including Shen Bin, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Women's Federation and director of Hengyang Office of Hunan Province, Jiang Mingxia, president of the China Cross-Strait New Family Association, and Zhang Guojun, chairman of the China Hunan Shaoyang Traveling to Taiwan Association, etc. After receiving the news of the air ticket subsidy, the message was sent to other In the WeChat group, Shen Bin added Taiwanese businessmen who intend to receive air ticket subsidies to the "Returning Home Group" WeChat group, and handed it over to Lian Shangming, the contact person of the Changsha Taiwan Association Secretariat, to organize it, which violated the contract bribery.

4 defendants pleaded guilty to probation, Lin Huai provided subsidies for sentencing

Zhuang and the other four were all sentenced to one year and eight months in the first instance. Although the high court upheld the sentence, considering that the four only assisted in reposting air ticket subsidy information and compiling the list of participants, and confessed to committing crimes, they declared the sentence suspended for five years and paid 200 yuan to the public treasury. Ten thousand yuan, and 30 hours of education on the rule of law.