The former principal was suspected of corruption, and the Kaohsiung High School Branch reversed the misdemeanor punishment.

(Photo by reporter Bao Jianxin)

[Reporter Bao Jianxin/Kaohsiung Report] Wang Yingming, the former principal of Pingtung Ruiguang Elementary School, bought claw machines to reward students for honor, but was accused of using his position to defraud 17,000 yuan, and was sentenced to 4 years in prison for corruption by the district court. Great reversal, changed to the commercial accounting law, sentenced to 6 months in prison, fined by Yike, and can be appealed.

It is understood that on December 15, 2017, the Pingtung County Government approved a subsidy of 95,000 yuan for Ruiguang Elementary School to handle the procurement case of "improving the teaching environment and equipment in 2017-purchasing sports exploration teaching equipment". The then principal Wang Yingming instructed the undertaker to submit A woman surnamed Hong purchased a claw machine, a red-and-white confrontation football table, a sacred fire table, and a baseball nine-square grid.

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Because Hong Nu claimed that the claw machines are very popular and will not arrive until the beginning of the next year, Wang went to the night market by himself and bought two second-hand claw machines for 10,000 yuan and put them in the school. The Women's Communist Party requested 95,000 yuan from the school and handed 17,000 yuan of it to Wu. The two were suspected of violating the Government Procurement Law, the Regulations on Corruption, and violating the Commercial Accounting Law.

Lin argued that the purchase of the claw machine was a reward method to attract students to fight for honor, and that all the funds were spent on the claw machine, denying any crime.

The Pingtung District Court sentenced Lin to 4 years in prison and deprivation of public rights for 2 years for the crime of corruption. He refused to accept the appeal; Hong Nu pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a 5-year probation. .

The Kaohsiung Higher Branch Court pronounced the verdict in the morning, finding that Wang Wei used his position to amass wealth, and changed it to a misdemeanor in accordance with the Commercial Accounting Law.