Court Observation Recruitment | The Wang Lung-chang Case | First Retrial Investigation Hearing

In 2003, while serving as a professor in the Institute of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering at Taipei National University of Technology, Wang Lung-chang (王隆昌) was appointed as one of the 17 evaluation committee members for the Nangang Exhibition Center construction project. In 2008, the Special Investigation Division investigated and concluded that Ruentex Group had obtained the list of committee members prior to the bidding and bribed Wang Lung-chang and 7 other committee members. After the Supreme Court dismissed Wang Lung-chang's appeal with Criminal Judgment 103-Tai-Shang-2103, Wang Lung-chang was convicted of taking bribes for non-official-duty-related acts and sentenced to 7 years and 8 months of imprisonment. Ten years have passed since then.

Aside from the complete lack of evidence to prove that Wang Lung-chang accepted bribes, the sole tainted witness, Huang Wei-an, special assistant to the chairman of Ruentex Group, claimed to have bribed Wang Lung-chang. However, his testimony has been contradictory, inconsistent, and repeatedly refuted by specific evidence presented by Wang Lung-chang.

In 2013, an investigation report by the Control Yuan raised doubts about this case; in 2015, the Prosecutor-General also filed an extraordinary appeal, which was nevertheless dismissed by the Supreme Court. This September, through the efforts of the pro bono defense team, the case finally passed the review of the Conviction Review Committee of the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, and the prosecutor filed for a retrial.

The path of wrongful conviction rescue requires you and me to walk together. We invite you to step into the courtroom with us and care about the first retrial investigation hearing of this case.
 

For more information about this case, please refer to: The Wang Lung-chang Case

Contact

Legal Specialist Yeh Po-chun
bj@jrf.org.tw
02-2523-1178 #31