Li Xuan upheld the second-instance judgment in the first instance.

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[Reporter Chen Guanbei/Changhua Report] Li Xuan, the mayor of Beidou Town in Changhua County, was involved in profiteering. He was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months in the second trial, deprived of public rights for 2 years, and was suspended in March this year.

He filed an appeal and was still elected as the mayor of the town. The first-instance judgment was released today and the original judgment was upheld.

The Civil Affairs Department of Changhua County pointed out that according to the local system law, Li Xuan was re-elected to the original public office and took office, and he can continue to serve as the mayor of the town according to law, unless he is sentenced to death.

Li Xuanzai said that he will appeal again.

When Li Xuan, 57 years old, was the director of the mayor's service office in 2017, he was accused of asking the squad leader of the cleaning team, surnamed Chen, to let people enter the landfill to dump more than 54 tons of construction waste, earning more than 77,000 yuan in improper profits. Yuan, and the pesticide store he operated were suspected of selling banned pesticides; in May 2020, in the first instance, they were sentenced to 5 years in prison in June and August and deprived of 4 years of public rights and a fine of 1.2 million yuan. Li Xuan refused to accept it and filed an appeal. In February 2022, the second-instance judgment was changed to a fine of 1 year, 10 months and 6 months, and deprivation of public rights for 2 years and a fine of 100 yuan In June this year, the Supreme Court remanded for a new trial, and the first trial was pronounced today, and the judgment of the second trial was upheld.

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In March of this year, the Changhua County Government announced that Li Xuanzai had been suspended according to the local law, and that he was replaced by Qiu Jinmo, the deputy director of the Civil Affairs Department. However, Li Xuanzai, who was originally a member of the Kuomintang, was changed to a non-party member to continue to run for Beidou mayor in this election. , Wang Dongyu and Yan Honglin, who were nominated by the same opponents as the DPP in the previous term, still won the election.

Li Xuanzai said that he is determined to stand for the election this time, so that the villagers can use their votes to return his innocence. At the beginning, he was punished for the crime of profiteering according to the regulations on corruption of public servants, which made him feel very wronged. , so he used the election to defend his innocence, and he will continue to appeal. I believe that the judiciary will return his innocence.

According to the Civil Affairs Office, according to Articles 78 and 79 of the Local Institutional Law, any township mayor who has been suspended for the crime of seeking profit in the Corruption Regulations, and who is re-elected to the original public office and takes office according to the law, will no longer apply the provisions of this article (Suspension), he can continue to serve as the mayor according to the law, unless he is sentenced to a fixed sentence, he needs to be dismissed according to the regulations. At present, the county government has not yet received the judgment, and its legal effect should still be determined by the content of the judgment.