FARGLORY GROUP CHAIR AND NEW TAIPEI CITY COUNCILOR DETAINED|涉遠雄案 趙藤雄.議員周勝考遭收押禁見

Taipei District Prosecutors Office is investigating the Farglory Group corruption case. Chair, Chao Teng-hsiung, and the New Taipei City councilor, Chou Sheng-kao, were detained after a night of questioning. The judge considered that the circumstances showed their involvement in a string of activities, together with accomplices who had not yet been questioned. Thus in the afternoon, the two were charged with violation of the securities and exchange act, with bribery and embezzlement and were ordered to be detained incommunicado. The Farglory Group stressed that will understand the reasons for detention as soon as possible and appeal. On June 30, investigators made an application to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office to detain Farglory Group Chair, Chao Teng-hsiung and the new Taipei city councilor, Chou Sheng-kao. This was sent to prosecutors in the afternoon and lawyers examined the application. In the middle of the night, the two were brought before a judge who questioned them. The hearing concluded at 4 am. At around 9:30 am Chao was again questioned by the judge. On the afternoon of July 1, the two were finally charged and held on violating the securities and exchange act. ==LIAN CHIEN-YU Taipei District Court spokesperson== There are accomplices in Chou's role as a witness to bribery and these have not been questioned, they need to be cross-examined on this. On Chao's part, there are concerns about altering and destruction of evidence with his accomplices and witnesses. They both have strong incentives to back up each other's testimony and collude further. In this corruption investigation, it is suspected that there was embezzlement of Far Glory finances to buy land and bribery to facilitate this. The case may widen and after the corruption scandal broke, New Taipei City Mayor 's Eric Chu appeared, emphasizing for the first time that the relevant local government records had been sent to the prosecutors and any corruption within local government would not be tolerated. ==ERIC CHU New Taipei City Mayor== Currently, these projects have not yet been approved and are still in review, yesterday we announced if there are any suspicious circumstances, we will halt the whole process. There is speculation is the prosecutors' actions will lead to a second wave of searches and questioning. The spokesperson said there was a set procedure which will be followed. ==CHANG CHIH-CHIN Taipei District Prosecutors Office spokesperson== We are still in the middle of the investigation, depending on the results of questioning we will then handle matters accordingly. The focus at the moment is on today's work. From June 29, as a result of the Criminal Procedure Law amendment, the time from investigation to detention cannot be over 48 hours. Both accused attempted to apply for release on bail, citing poor health, but this was not granted. The Far Glory Group issued a statement, saying that it will fully cooperate with the investigation, and it was in the process of understanding of the reasons for the decision on detention, and would then lodge an appeal. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 台北地檢署，偵辦遠雄弊案，集團董事長、趙藤雄，和新北市議員、周勝考，在昨天被聲請「羈押禁見」。而台北地院，經過漏夜偵訊，法官考量，這兩人、涉案情節重大、有勾串之虞，而且還有共犯，還沒有到案，因此今天下午，依違反「證券交易法」、「行賄」等罪，裁定兩人收押禁見。對此，遠雄集團強調，會在了解「裁決理由」後，儘快提出抗告。 遠雄集團董事長趙藤雄，以及新北市議員周勝考，30號上午遭到台北地檢署聲請羈押禁見，羈押卷證下午送達台北地院，律師團依刑事訴訟法新法，於昨晚6點多開始閱卷；深夜，北院聲押庭開始；法官先詢問趙藤雄，再詢問周勝考，清晨4點多庭訊結束；9點半左右，再度訊問趙藤雄，直到下午1點多，北院依違反證券交易法、行賄等罪，裁定兩人收押禁見。 ==台北地院發言人 廖建瑜== 周勝考行賄證人的部分 有共犯還有證人未到案 尚待交互詰問釐清案情 那趙藤雄有勾串共犯證人 湮滅變造及偽造證據之虞 存有所謂互相勾串證詞 互為維護的高度誘因 由於檢調這次偵辦的弊端，從遠雄內部的疑似掏空，再到對外的買地，都可能行賄，牽扯範圍不小，弊案爆發後，新北市長朱立倫上午首度現身，強調相關清查資料，已經送交司法單位，不容許同仁有任何貪瀆行為。 ==新北市長 朱立倫== 目前這些案子 都還沒有通過 都還在審查當中 我們昨天也宣布了 只要有任何司法疑慮的 我們都停止任何的程序 外界關心，檢方後續是否會有第二波搜索或約談動作？北檢發言人強調，該查的一定會查辦到底。 ==台北地檢署發言人 張介欽== 現在都還在偵辦中 該查的都會查 等聲押結果 看結果怎麼樣 我們後續 才會再做處理 重點先擺在今天 由於刑訴法修正，從29號檢調正式搜索、偵訊到收押，時間超過48小時，兩人都以身體狀況不佳，希望能保外就醫，不過，法官不予採納，裁定收押禁見。而遠雄集團也發表聲明，強調全力會配合調查，在了解裁決理由後，儘快提出抗告。 記者 陳佳鑫 張梓嘉 台北報導