Retired chief prosecutor faces impeachment
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Control Yuan is to decide whether to impeach retired chief prosecutor Lo Jung-chien (羅榮乾), who was among 200 judicial and government officials implicated in a case centered on former Supreme Court judge Shih Mu-chin (石木欽) and businessman Weng Mao-chung (翁茂鍾).
The Ministry of Justice’s prosecutorial personnel review committee on Feb. 19 forwarded Lo’s case to the Control Yuan, the nation’s top watchdog with the authority to impeach civil servants.
According to the ministry’s internal investigation, Lo attended 74 banquets hosted by Weng and received eight personalized shirts and other gifts from the Chia Her Industrial Co president, from 1998 to 2015, while Weng was embroiled in legal disputes for which he won favorable rulings.
Majority dissatisfied with judicial reform measures: survey
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Law practitioners and Taiwan Jury Association (TJA) members yesterday gave the government a failing grade for its judicial reform efforts, citing the results of a survey showing that nearly 70 percent of the respondents were dissatisfied with reform measures, amid an investigation into former Supreme Court judge Shih Mu-chin (石木欽) and others over corruption allegations.
Presenting the results at a news briefing in the legislature, TJA director Chen Wei-shyang (陳為祥) said the association had commissioned Taipei-based polling firm D&S Intelligence Co to conduct the survey from Jan. 28 to 30.
“The results showed that 68.9 percent of people do not trust our justice system . while only 26.4 percent said they trust it,” he said. “This is a historic low for people not trusting in the justice system.”
Control Yuan to investigate six judges
MARATHON SESSION: After deliberating for more than seven hours, a judicial committee also rescinded the judiciary medals conferred on two accused judges
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Judicial Yuan on Thursday forwarded the cases of six high-ranking judges to the Control Yuan for further investigation of alleged involvement in a corruption scandal centering on former Supreme Court judge Shih Mu-chin (石木欽) and Chia Her Industrial Co (佳和集團) president Weng Mao-chung (翁茂鍾).
The decision followed a lengthy session of the Judicial Evaluation Committee, which lasted more than seven hours.
Based on the findings of judiciary agencies, the committee said that six judges had committed serious transgressions in their alleged involvement with Weng while he was facing nine litigation cases in the 1990s.
Electoral campaigns implicated in judicial scandal
NEW ALLEGATIONS: Weng Mao-chung made political donations to lawmakers and city councilors from major parties during election campaigns, local media reported
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
More political figures and police officials were yesterday embroiled in a corruption scandal centering on former Supreme Court judge Shih Mu-chin (石木欽) and Chia Her Industrial Co (佳和集團) president Weng Mao-chung (翁茂鍾).
Local Chinese-language media reported that Weng allegedly made political donations to lawmakers and city councilors from major parties during election campaigns, and treated high-ranking police officials to banquets and gifts to allegedly buy influence.
Shih in a media interview denied the accusations, saying that he had done nothing wrong.