Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) Shih Mu-chin (石木欽), a former head of what is now Taiwan's Disciplinary Court, will be relieved of his position as a judge because of his inappropriate interaction with a business acquaintance over a 20-year period, according to a court ruling issued Friday.
A former High Court judge has been impeached for alleged inappropriate contact with a businessman involved in multiple civil and criminal lawsuits from 1997 to 2017, the Control Yuan said on Thursday.
Control Yuan members on Thursday last week voted unanimously to impeach Tseng Ping-shan (曾平杉), who had served on the court’s Tainan branch from June 1997 to December 2013, the Control Yuan said in a statement.
During his term in office, Tseng was found to have socialized with Weng Mao-chung (翁茂鍾), then-chairman of textile producer Chia Her Group, and accepted gifts from him, the Control Yuan said.
Weng’s diary showed that Tseng
Taipei, March 10 (CNA) A former judge on the Taiwan High Court's Tainan branch has been impeached for inappropriate contacts with a businessman involved in multiple civil and criminal lawsuits from 1997-2017, the Control Yuan said Thursday.
Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) Shih Mu-chin (石木欽), a former head of what is now Taiwan's Disciplinary Court and a former Supreme Court judge, was slapped with a fine equivalent to 12 months of his salary on Friday for his inappropriate contacts with a businessman acquaintance between 1997 and 2017.
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