At the end of last year, the election of the chairman and deputy speaker of Tainan City was suspected of bribery. In early January this year, the investigation and investigation team searched and subpoenaed the Democratic Progressive Party’s South City Speaker Qiu Lili (right) and Deputy Speaker Lin Zhizhan. At that time, Qiu Lili and Lin Zhizhan received 500,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan respectively. On bail; this morning, the prosecutors summoned Qiu and Lin again, and they are currently under interrogation in Tainan City.

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[Reporter Wang Junzhong/Tainan Report] At the end of last year, suspicions of bribery broke out in the election of the chairman and deputy speaker of Tainan City. In early January this year, the investigation and investigation team searched and subpoenaed the Democratic Progressive Party's Southern City Speaker Qiu Lili, Deputy Speaker Lin Zhizhan, and 3 people including Li Wenjun, Zhang Shixian, and Li Zhenguo. A total of 6 councilors, including the KMT councilor who ran votes and the non-party city councilor Huang Lizhao, Qiu Lili and Lin Zhizhan received 500,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan in bail respectively; Interrogation in Tainan City.

In this regard, the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office confirmed after receiving media verification that the procuratorial unit had indeed issued subpoenas to Qiu and Lin on the 6th. Clarify the facts of the bribery case of the chairman and deputy speaker. The content of the investigation and interrogation is not made public because it involves investigation, so it is inconvenient to explain.

If there are results in the follow-up interrogation, a moderate explanation will be given.

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So far in this case, Guo Zaiqin, the former central executive member of the Democratic Progressive Party, Lin Shijie, chairman of Nanshi Fisherman's Association, Huang Yiping, a friend of Nanshi Councilor Li Wenjun, Huang Lizhao, a non-party city councilor, and Yang Zhiqiang, president of Yuanshan Enterprise, have been detained and banned from seeing each other.

The other defendants in the same case, city councilor Li Wenjun first received 250,000 yuan bail on January 4, and the prosecution appealed to the court again on January 8 and was dismissed without bail; city councilor Li Zhenguo posted 150,000 yuan bail on January 4 , Li Zhenguo's wife Gao Meixian paid 100,000 yuan in security on January 4; city councilor Zhang Shixian paid 100,000 yuan in security on January 4.