Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) The Changhua District Prosecutors' Office on Wednesday said it suspected 12 individuals of buying votes ahead of the Nov. 26 local elections and filed suit to annul the elections of seven of those individuals.
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The Changhua District Court on Tuesday ordered a man to pay NT$1,654,308 (US$55,547) to Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) for using private electricity lines to power his cryptocurrency mining operation without paying energy bills.
The ruling can be appealed.
A Taipower inspector and police officers from the county’s Lukang Precinct in January last year found that the man, surnamed Cheng (鄭), had 20 cryptocurrency mining machines attached to two private power lines that were not connected to an electric meter.
Taipower filed civil and criminal lawsuits against Cheng, saying he should be held responsible for his actions, which the company described as theft.
Upon its
Taichung police on Thursday arrested 35 people after raiding a gambling venue in a restaurant, including three migrant workers and one suspect wanted for a drug-related crime.
Police raided on the venue in Taichung’s Dali District (大里) after receiving a report on Monday, the Wufeng District (霧峰) Police Precinct said in a news release.
It was reported that the restaurant often welcomed huge numbers of people, none of whom ate, but went straight to the back of the establishment, the statement said, adding that the noise they made raised suspicions that people were gambling inside.
Police saw many people entering the restaurant not
A former official in charge of an expressway engineering office was on Thursday indicted on charges of taking bribes and bid rigging involving NT$860 million (US$29.17 million at the current exchange rate) of public projects.
Lai Jung-chun (賴榮俊), 57, was the former head of the National Expressway Engineering Bureau’s Southern District Office.
Huang Hung-juei (黃閎睿), 58, owner of Sheng Chi Construction Co, and 15 other contractors were also indicted over suspected bid rigging and other illegal activities that allowed them to secure 30 public projects totaling NT$860 million over eight years.
Changhua County prosecutors said that Lai in 2013 started accepting