Chen Sheng-hung (; born 5 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Chen graduated from

Feng Chia University Feng Chia University (FCU; ) is a private research university in Taiwan, located in Taichung. It was named after Chiu Feng-Chia one of the leaders of the military resistance against the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895. Feng Chia Uni ...

Political career

Chen served on the

Taipei City Council Taipei City Council () is the city council of Taipei, Taiwan. One of the largest local councils in Taiwan, the city council is currently composed of 63 councillors, all elected lately in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections. Composition ...

from 1977 to 1998. In 1988, he found that seven fellow councillors and six other

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employees had accepted bribes from Chiaofu Construction Corporation while the Ronghsing Park development project was ongoing. Legal action resulting from the scandal continued until 2003.

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and Chen Chun-yuan were the only former councilors convicted of bribery. Chou subsequently resigned his seat on the Legislative Yuan. Chen Sheng-hung was placed on the Democratic Progressive Party's proportional representation ballot in 1998, and won election to the

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. He was reelected via party list in 2001. He was initially uninvolved with the factions of the DPP, but later led his own political faction, known as the Green Alliance, and later the Green Friendship Alliance. The DPP issued a disciplinary statement against Chen Sheng-hung and

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in 2003, when Su Hui-chen accused both politicians of accepting bribes from her. In 2004, Su accused Chen's wife

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of buying votes during the DPP primaries held before the 2004 legislative elections. The same allegation against Chen and Hsueh resurfaced in 2006, in the midst of a party leadership contest. The next year, the couple were charged with forgery and issuing fraudulent loans via Sunny Bank. The Shilin District Prosecutors' Office sought nine years imprisonment and a NT$10 million fine each for Chen, Hsueh, and two others. Both Chen and Hsueh were found not guilty in the first trial heard by the Shilin District Court. Upon appeal, the Taiwan High Court ruled in 2012 that Chen was to serve three years and two months in prison. The High Court reduced Chen's prison sentence to thirty months in a ruling issued in April 2018.

References

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