The head of a township in Pingtung, Taiwan, who was suspected of embezzling public funds to buy Zhang Huimei’s concert jacket, was reinstated on bail.

　　China News Service, February 2. According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", Gu Jiachuan, the mayor of Changzhi Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan, was suspected of using public funds to buy souvenirs for Zhang Huimei's concert, etc., and defrauded 58,000 yuan through false write-offs. (New Taiwan Dollar, the same below), was charged with corruption and detained for nearly 11 months. Gu Jiachuan was recently released on bail and reinstated, continuing to argue that he did not "violate the law."

　　Gu Jiachuan clarified that he bought the concert jacket only for official identification purposes. He also sternly refuted reports that he was buying concert tickets, emphasizing that the cause of the incident was that the instructor surnamed Zhang, who was in charge of write-offs, went to an outside store to randomly ask for receipts and reported write-offs indiscriminately. After the incident came to light, he did not dare to take responsibility and passed the blame to him.

　　Pingtung prosecutors pointed out that after Gu Jiachuan became the mayor of Changzhi Township in 2018, he was suspected of joining forces with the township mayor’s special assistant surnamed Zhang, who was a former finance and banking department instructor, from 2020 to 2021 to commit fraud through false verifications. Public funds cover private expenses.

　　According to the prosecutor's investigation, Gu Jiachuan did not actually go to a restaurant to make purchases on May 24, May 26, and December 13, 2020, but instructed the township chief's special assistant surnamed Zhang to obtain blank receipts in advance for false write-offs. In addition, on January 7, 2021, Gu Jiachuan held a birthday party for his father in a restaurant, and held multiple birthday parties for his family. He also had personal expenses such as purchasing souvenirs for Zhang Huimei’s New Year’s Eve concert and attorney fees for appointing a lawyer. They all falsely wrote off public funds fraudulently obtained by "the township chief advanced payment on his behalf", totaling more than 58,000 yuan.

　　It is reported that when the prosecutor initially investigated, they initially suspected that Gu Jiachuan had defrauded at least more than 100,000 public funds through false write-offs. The prosecutor said that Gu Jiachuan argued that many of them were expenses for official trips or red envelopes, but that he forgot to take the receipts and did not violate the law. The amount he argued was about 105,000 yuan, which was different from the prosecutor’s initial estimate. almost. (over)