Lawyers, police, household registration personnel, and clerks colluded to commit fraud. Is the Taiwanese judicial system still trustworthy?

Taiwan has consecutively exposed members of its judicial system involved in large-scale fraud cases, with suspects including lawyers, police officers, civil servants, and clerks, severely impacting public trust in the judicial system. When the gatekeepers of justice are accomplices of criminal organizations, who can the people of Taiwan trust?

The Taiwanese version of the ground master is more exciting than the Japanese drama. Lawyers and public officials are involved in 11 cases, defrauding nearly 150 million.

The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has cracked a fraud case involving the forgery of wills and the fraudulent acquisition of inheritance from elderly individuals living alone, resulting in the prosecution of 44 people. Members of this local fraud group included not only private notary lawyer Tsai Hung-shen but also personnel from the household registration office, police officers, clerks, and several public officials. Among those involved was You Li-lun, a clerk in the Family Law Section of the New Taipei District Court, who had previously been a police officer and later ventured into making adult films, playing multiple roles at once, a story even more explosive than the plot of the Japanese drama about fraud.

Lawyer Tsai Hung-shen is a private notary public. The North Court found that in order to obtain bribes from the main suspect Tsai Shang-yueh, Tsai Hung-shen knowingly handled the certification of the forged will declaration and cooperated by allowing it to pass. He received bribes of 1.2 million, 2.2 million, and 5.5 million in three cases of false wills, totaling 8.9 million, committing the crime of accepting bribes in violation of duty. ( Source: UDN )

The North Court has announced today that lawyer Tsai Hung-shen has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and deprived of political rights for 10 years for violating his duties and being involved in corruption and bribery, facing a total of 8 charges. The sentence is even harsher than the 14 years given to the main suspect of the fraud group, Tsai Shang-yueh. Tsai Hung-shen cried out in court, claiming he knew nothing.

This case involves at least 11 cases of fraud concerning the inheritance of elderly individuals living alone, with one case involving a fraud amount as high as 55.8 million yuan. The total amount defrauded by the fraud group is 149.25 million yuan, severely undermining public trust in the judiciary.

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Li Yidian, known as "Lawyer Xiantai" with 220,000 followers for sharing legal knowledge, is suspected of using his identity as a defense lawyer to help a money laundering scheme related to a columbarium fraud group. After being searched and questioned by the police, he was released on bail of 700,000 and restricted from leaving the country or going to sea. The prosecution pointed out that Li, along with two other lawyers Zhao Haocheng and Cai Yuanyu, is suspected of secretly helping the masterminds hide the cash flow while meeting with the defendants during their detention, assisting in handling hundreds of thousands of illegal gains, and even leaking investigative information to the fraud group members.

The accused spirit bone tower fraud group deceived victims by purchasing "unfinished tower positions" to gain their trust, conducting a second round of fraud against them, leading victims to believe they could sell off their investments in failed unfinished spirit bone towers. They successfully scammed over a hundred million, causing further harm to the victims, which is appalling. The defense lawyer for the spirit bone tower fraud group, Li Yidan, is currently suspected of being a member of the conspiracy organization and is also involved in money flow manipulation and money laundering leaks, further tarnishing the public image of the Taiwanese judiciary.

From the "Taiwan version of ground teachers" to the spirit bone tower fraud case, the common point between the two cases is that the fraud group no longer relies solely on investment rhetoric and carefully planned schemes, but instead infiltrates the judicial system, cooperating with lawyers, public officials, and police personnel to obtain key documents and personal information. If the judicial system itself has already been corrupted, what can we rely on to uphold justice? It is all the deceived Taiwanese people who should be lamenting!

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