The squad leader of the New Taipei City Crematorium, surnamed Xi, was transferred to the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office for re-examination due to bribery.

(Photo by reporter Wang Dingchuan)

[Reporter Wang Dingchuan/New Taipei Report] The New Taipei City Crematorium and the New Taipei City Funeral Parlor revealed that civil servants have long accepted bribes from the funeral industry, and after receiving the money, they will give privileges in many links, such as choosing the time to enter the tower, giving priority to cremation, and ensuring the smooth entry of the body into the museum, etc. , The anti-corruption police launched a 53-way search yesterday, and interviewed 13 civil servants, 12 business owners, and 1 witness, including the monitor of the cremation site surnamed Lin and the staff of the funeral home surnamed Lin. Field personnel, 200,000 yuan for the squad leader surnamed Xi, and 100,000 yuan for the rest of the civil servants.

As for the business owners involved in the case, the prosecution ordered Chen to pay 100,000 yuan in bail, Lu Lu's 10,000 yuan in bail, and the rest to return.

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Prosecutors investigated, Xi Nan and other 9 crematorium employees, since 2020, have accepted red envelopes from the funeral industry, ranging from hundreds of yuan to thousands of yuan, as a way to arrange them into the tower at a specific time, hoping to give priority to cremation, or to properly , Carefully handle the consideration for cremation and bone picking of the deceased.

Four people, including a temporary worker named Lin in the refrigerated room of the funeral parlor, have been involved in receiving hundreds of yuan to thousands of yuan in red envelopes from the industry since 2019, as consideration for the smooth process of moving the remains into the museum; 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

Not only that, there was an incident where the deceased’s gold tooth disappeared after the cremation. The family members suspected that it was stolen by the crematorium personnel.

Prosecutor Li Zonghan of the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office's Anti-Black Money Team yesterday commanded the ICAC and the New Taipei City Criminal Police Brigade to launch a search, seized cash, mobile phones and other items, and notified 26 people to come to the case to explain. The crime of accepting bribes for the above-mentioned acts”, and the funeral industry is suspected of “delivering bribes to civil servants for acts that do not violate their duties”.

After the prosecution missed the interrogation at night, they ordered the crematorium personnel surnamed Lin, squad leader surnamed Xi to pay 200,000 yuan in bail, and the rest of the civil servants to hand over 100,000 yuan in bail for violating the Corruption and Crime Regulations.