Su Zhenqing, a non-party legislator, told the clerk.

(File photo, synthesized by this newspaper)

[Reporter Wu Zhengfeng/Taipei Report] The Taipei District Court found that non-party legislator Su Zhenqing accepted bribes from the former head of Pacific Distribution Company Li Henglong. In July last year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption, deprived of public rights for 5 years, and confiscated 15.8 million yuan of illegal gains.

Su Zhenqing questioned that the interrogation recordings of the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office that were prosecuted were full of noise and discontinuity. Su Zhenqing's appeal was rejected and the acquittal verdict was upheld. The reasons will be announced later.

Su Zhenqing filed a private prosecution claim. The prosecutor and clerk in charge of the bribery case of the legislator interrogated Li Henglong on August 10, 2020. The recording evidence of Li Henglong's confession was full of noise and could not be heard clearly. When Li Henglong was interrogated on the 24th of the same month, the actual recording The content is also not completely consistent with the translation made by the prosecution, and the recording is not continuous, which is suspected of altering criminal evidence.

Su Zhenqing believed that the content of the confession was falsified, and sued the prosecutor and the clerk for two crimes of false publication by public servants and annihilation of criminal evidence.

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The North Court of First Instance held that Su Zhenqing’s alleged crime should include the crime of abuse of power, which falls within the scope of national legal interests, not personal legal interests. Su Zhenqing is not a “direct victim” and cannot file a private prosecution according to the law, and the private prosecution is ruled inadmissible.

Su Zhenqing appealed, and the High Court rejected the appeal against the prosecutor’s private prosecution, but the clerk surnamed Zhao was not the subject of the crime of abuse of power, and Su Zhenqing did not accuse the clerk of abuse of power, so the High Court held that Su Zhenqing could file a private prosecution against the clerk according to law , Part of the revocation of the clerk surnamed Zhao was sent back to the North Court for retrial.

After the first trial of the North Court, on July 27 last year, it was found that the clerk surnamed Zhao had no criminal acts and criminal intent, and the verdict was acquitted. On the 11th, the High Court upheld the acquittal verdict.