Female Prosecutor Fined 10 Months' Salary for Improperly Querying Case Data for Boyfriend
Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office prosecutor Wu Yazhi was fined 10 months' salary by the Disciplinary Court for improperly accessing case information and sharing it with her lawyer boyfriend. Appeals by the Ministry of Justice and the Control Yuan for a harsher penalty were dismissed, finalizing the ruling.
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(Central News Agency, reporter Lin Changshun, Taipei, 3rd) Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office prosecutor Wu Yazhi was involved in improperly querying case information and sending documents, including indictments, to her lawyer boyfriend. The Disciplinary Court of the Adjudication Court initially sentenced Wu to a 10-month salary penalty. The Ministry of Justice appealed, requesting her dismissal from the prosecutor position and reassignment as a prosecutor's officer, but the Disciplinary Court dismissed the appeal, finalizing the case.
Lawyer Zheng Hongwei was accused of joining a fraud group. When the group's underlings were caught by police, Zheng, either personally or through his assistant Lin Jiayi, assigned 15 lawyers as defense attorneys. These lawyers allegedly leaked information by accompanying clients during police interrogations, prosecutor's hearings, and reviewing detention records. The Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted Zheng and 17 others, including Wu's boyfriend, a lawyer surnamed Zhu.
The Control Yuan investigation found that Wu used the "Ministry of Justice Single Window Document Inspection System" for non-official purposes, transmitted data to her boyfriend, actively encouraged him to enter the fraud group's legal circle and take cases, and failed to initiate an investigation even after learning that the fraud group's lawyers had committed crimes like leaking secrets. This violated the Personal Data Protection Act and the Code of Ethics for Prosecutors.
The Control Yuan determined that Wu had committed serious misconduct and was unfit for the position of prosecutor. It passed an impeachment motion recommending her dismissal and referred the case to the Disciplinary Court. The Ministry of Justice also referred Wu for disciplinary action.
The Disciplinary Court ruled that Wu's misconduct severely impacted the image and credibility of prosecutors' impartial enforcement of the law, warranting disciplinary action. However, it deemed the situation not severe enough to deem her unfit as a prosecutor. In late December of last year, the court sentenced Wu to a salary penalty equivalent to 10 months of her current monthly salary.
The Ministry of Justice and the Control Yuan appealed, arguing the original sentence was too lenient and requesting the Disciplinary Court to overturn the decision and order her dismissal and reassignment as a prosecutor's officer.
The second-instance Disciplinary Court stated that the original trial, after evaluating the overall circumstances including the motive, details, and damage caused, found it difficult to conclude that Wu's misconduct reached the level of unfitness for a prosecutor as argued by the Ministry of Justice and the Control Yuan. The court ruled that the original trial did not exceed the scope of the law and was not insufficient in its evaluation, thus dismissing the appeal and finalizing the case. (Editor: Zhang Mingkun) 1150603
Lawyer Zheng Hongwei was accused of joining a fraud group. When the group's underlings were caught by police, Zheng, either personally or through his assistant Lin Jiayi, assigned 15 lawyers as defense attorneys. These lawyers allegedly leaked information by accompanying clients during police interrogations, prosecutor's hearings, and reviewing detention records. The Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted Zheng and 17 others, including Wu's boyfriend, a lawyer surnamed Zhu.
The Control Yuan investigation found that Wu used the "Ministry of Justice Single Window Document Inspection System" for non-official purposes, transmitted data to her boyfriend, actively encouraged him to enter the fraud group's legal circle and take cases, and failed to initiate an investigation even after learning that the fraud group's lawyers had committed crimes like leaking secrets. This violated the Personal Data Protection Act and the Code of Ethics for Prosecutors.
The Control Yuan determined that Wu had committed serious misconduct and was unfit for the position of prosecutor. It passed an impeachment motion recommending her dismissal and referred the case to the Disciplinary Court. The Ministry of Justice also referred Wu for disciplinary action.
The Disciplinary Court ruled that Wu's misconduct severely impacted the image and credibility of prosecutors' impartial enforcement of the law, warranting disciplinary action. However, it deemed the situation not severe enough to deem her unfit as a prosecutor. In late December of last year, the court sentenced Wu to a salary penalty equivalent to 10 months of her current monthly salary.
The Ministry of Justice and the Control Yuan appealed, arguing the original sentence was too lenient and requesting the Disciplinary Court to overturn the decision and order her dismissal and reassignment as a prosecutor's officer.
The second-instance Disciplinary Court stated that the original trial, after evaluating the overall circumstances including the motive, details, and damage caused, found it difficult to conclude that Wu's misconduct reached the level of unfitness for a prosecutor as argued by the Ministry of Justice and the Control Yuan. The court ruled that the original trial did not exceed the scope of the law and was not insufficient in its evaluation, thus dismissing the appeal and finalizing the case. (Editor: Zhang Mingkun) 1150603