A member of the construction management section of the Penghu County Government accepted bribes and released water and was seized during public security inspections. The Qiaotou District Court sentenced Cai to 1 year and 10 months in prison, with a 5-year probation, and the briber Xu was sentenced to 10 months in prison, with a 3-year probation.

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[Reporter Cai Qinghua / Report from Kaohsiung] Penghu County Government’s Construction Management Section hired a person surnamed Cai to accept bribes six times in a row, and released them for public security inspection. In 2020, he was seized by the ICAC. Cai confessed to the crime and returned 105,000 illegal gains In Yuan, the Qiaotou District Court sentenced Cai to 1 year and 10 months in prison, suspended for 5 years, and the briber Xu was sentenced to 10 months in October and suspended for 3 years.

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The judgment pointed out that the contractor with the surname Cai was responsible for the public safety inspection of buildings in the Penghu area and the review of the qualification certificate for the improvement of building interior decoration materials. The company employs professional inspectors. Since 2019, Xu has delivered bribes ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to Cai several times to allow unqualified cases to be declared and passed. He has delivered bribes 6 times, totaling 105,000 yuan.

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Since the defendants surnamed Cai and Xu all confessed to committing crimes, and the bribes paid and accepted each time were less than 50,000 yuan, and the contracted personnel surnamed Cai voluntarily surrendered their criminal proceeds, the prosecutor suggested that the court should reduce their sentences according to regulations.

The whole case was prosecuted by the Penghu District Prosecutor’s Office, and then the Kaohsiung Branch of the High Court ruled that the jurisdiction was transferred to the Qiaotou District Court. Cai and Xu were sentenced to 1 year and 10 months respectively in accordance with the Corruption Punishment Act, and they were suspended for 5 months. 150,000 and 100,000 yuan to the public treasury for 1 year and 3 years respectively.