(Mainstream media reporter Cai Zongxian/Tainan report) Ku Shenghui, a former advisor to the Executive Yuan who serves as the president of Liyang Group, is accused of illegally acquiring land for the “Tainan Qigu Five Days 296MW Solar Photovoltaic Farm”. Prosecutors alleged that business owners and civil servants conspired to get around the ban on minors in order to circumvent the more complicated review procedures and save about NT$8.3 million in expenses required to apply for development projects. Today, the Tainan District Prosecutor’s Office investigation concluded. Ten members of the company and five civil servants were prosecuted on suspicion of profiteering and using civil servants to publish false documents.
Prosecutors said that at that time, Li Yang Group filed an application in the name of Wutian Company. Because the review progress was not as expected as Li Yang Group expected, President Gu Shenghui, as an advisor to the Executive Yuan, through the then Tainan City Government Advisor and Democratic Progressive Party Central Executive Guo Zaiqin arranged for Gu Shenghui to go to the Tainan City Government with senior officials of the Liyang Group on February 5, 2010 to visit Mayor Huang Weizhe and Economic Development Director Chen Kailing. The visit included discussions on the optoelectronics review and the replacement of the joint review system for procurement. issue.
In order to clarify the relevant facts of the case, the Tainan District Attorney’s Office summoned Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe as a witness to explain the case on February 29, 2013. The Southern Prosecutor’s Office stated that based on the witnesses and physical evidence currently under investigation, prosecutors have found no positive evidence to confirm that Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe is also involved in the case. As for Guo Zaiqin, although the prosecutor’s investigation found that Guo Zaiqin arranged a meeting with him as an intermediary, it remains unclear whether Guo Zaiqin was involved in the case. Further investigation is still needed, and this part is being investigated separately by prosecutors from the Tainan District Attorney’s Office.
The prosecutor pointed out that in this case, Wutian Company illegally cooperated with others to make profits and obtained the qualifications of Taiwan Power Company to sign a wholesale electric energy sales contract. Through setting up a case for illegal operation, it is conservatively estimated that the expected electricity sales revenue in 20 years will reach 9.1 billion. 26.018763 yuan. In order to completely deprive the proceeds of crime and eliminate the inducement of crime, the Tainan District Prosecutor’s Office will separately apply to the court to declare the actual benefits of Wutian Company’s wholesale sales of electricity to Taipower Company in installments.
