[Global Network Reporter Yin Yanhui] According to Taiwan’s "United Daily News" on September 23, Lin Tangjun, a Taiwanese man, armed with a model air gun last year, snatched two Rolex watches with a market value of NT$3.89 million from a watch shop in Hong Kong and absconded back to Taiwan. After being arrested, he was called "Taiwanese version of Chen Tongjia".
In the first instance, a Taiwanese court sentenced him to 10 years and 10 months imprisonment for aggravated robbery based on photos and videos taken by Hong Kong media, as well as stolen evidence seized at Lin Tangjun’s residence. He refused to accept the sentence and appealed. The second instance rejected the entire case. Still sentenced to 10 years and 10 months.
Can appeal again.
According to reports, Zhang Guozhong, the presiding judge of the collegiate bench of the Taichung High Branch, pronounced the verdict in the court today (23rd) at 10 o'clock in the morning. Zhang Guozhong said that the original trial was not improper and that Lin Tangjun’s appeal was unreasonable, so he rejected the whole case.
The collegiate panel held that Lin Tangjun (30) owed huge gambling debts and used a simulated air gun to robber Hong Kong’s “classic hour hand” watch. He obtained two Rolex watches worth millions of dollars, causing heavy losses to the store’s property and seriously endangering local public order and security. Order, sentenced.
The report mentioned that in addition to the robber Hong Kong Watch Shop, Lin Tangjun also snatched two Rolex watches from the "Swiss Watch Shop" in Kyoto, Japan at the end of May last year, valued at NT$4.25 million; on June 12 last year, he had a business in the Far East of Singapore. The center's "HJ LUXURY" grabbed two Rolex watches. Because Taiwan has no jurisdiction, the prosecutor gave a sanction of non-prosecution.
The verdict revealed that Lin Tangjun took a plane to Hong Kong on September 28 last year. During his stay, he went to the Classic Watch "Classic Timepiece" in the 11th basement of Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. He returned to Taiwan on October 1 of the same year.
On the afternoon of October 5 of the same year, Lin Tangjun went to Hong Kong again. After arriving, he bought a black simulated air gun capable of firing BB bullets at a model shop in Mong Kok for HK$680.
On the morning of October 6th last year, Lin Tangjun was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt, black pants, a white cap, carrying a brown leather bag, and putting a simulated air gun in the waistband on the right side and covering it with a jacket, and took a taxi to go. "Classic Timepieces" table line.
Lin Tangjun enters the store and pretends to buy a Rolex watch, waiting for the male clerk to take out the two Rolex watches displayed in the decoration cabinet in the store and take them out for him to watch and choose to try on. He puts on the Rolex watch in his left hand and the other watch in his right. The clerk stood at the door, making it difficult for him to escape smoothly.
So he took out the air gun hidden at his waist, raised it and pointed it at the male clerk. The male clerk was deeply frightened, so he snatched the simulated air gun held by Lin Tangjun.
Lin Jian's simulated air gun was released, grabbing the door while holding 2 Rolex watches in disorder and escaped.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Tangjun returned to Taiwan by plane. On the afternoon of the 24th of the same month, he took the Rolex watch straps he obtained to a pawnshop in Lingya District, Kaohsiung City, and sold them for NT$2.8 million.
The Taichung prosecutors launched the investigation based on the fax letter of the Hong Kong Port Authority "Request for assistance in investigating a robbery" on November 5 last year.
The prosecutors arrested Lin Tangjun along the line on November 11 last year and seized more than NT$2.7 million in criminal proceeds, 4 Rolex watches, and other stolen goods at the residence of Lin Tangjun and his girlfriend.
According to previous media reports, the case of Chen Tongjia was tumultuous in Hong Kong and Taiwan last year.
During the trip to Taiwan, Hong Kong man Chen Tongjia and his girlfriend took a flight back to Hong Kong after killing his girlfriend. After being released from prison on October 23 last year, he repeatedly stated that he would surrender to Taiwan, but he did not go to Taiwan for a long time.
The Lin Tangjun case was called the "Taiwan version of the Chen Tongjia case" because it also involved judicial issues in Hong Kong and Taiwan.