Chiayi City Official, Two Contractors Indicted for Forgery Over Falsified Construction Reports
A section chief from the Chiayi City Government, surnamed Yeh, has been indicted for forgery. In 2022, he allegedly instructed a contractor, Mr. Lin, and a supervising engineer, Mr. Chiu, to falsify construction logs for road and drain cover repairs. The work had been completed before the contract was officially awarded. The Chiayi District Prosecutors Office has charged all three with forgery, though no evidence of corruption was found.
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(CNA, Chiayi City, May 20, by reporter Huang Kuo-fang) A section chief in the Chiayi City Government, surnamed Yeh, has been indicted on charges of forgery. He is accused of first ordering repairs on damaged street drain covers in 2022 and later instructing the cooperating contractor, a man surnamed Lin, and the supervising inspector, a man surnamed Chiu, to fill out false construction logs. The Chiayi District Prosecutors Office has concluded its investigation and indicted the three individuals for forgery.
According to the indictment from the Chiayi District Prosecutors Office, when Section Chief Yeh was a technician at the Chiayi City West District Office, he was responsible for the procurement case of the 2022 open-end contract for the maintenance of road-affiliated facilities in the West District. This contract was awarded on March 3, 2022, to a civil engineering contracting company run by Mr. Lin. The contract required Lin to dispatch workers for repairs or emergency fixes upon notification from the district office.
The Prosecutors Office stated that Yeh knowingly prepared official documents with false information for 28 maintenance and repair sites, including a damaged drain cover on Lanzhou 1st Street, for which he sought approval in April 2022. In reality, the work had already been completed by Lin's company before the contract was awarded (i.e., before March 2022). He then submitted these documents to his unsuspecting superiors for approval and implementation.
The Prosecutors Office said that Lin cooperated by creating construction logs with false information and submitting them to the design and supervision company managed by Chiu. Subsequently, they applied for partial inspection and acceptance from the West District Office, which undermined the accuracy of the office's contract performance management. The case was referred to the Chiayi District Prosecutors Office for investigation under the direction of the Ministry of Justice's Agency Against Corruption.
The Prosecutors Office reported that Yeh and the other two men confessed upon being questioned. They admitted that the construction dates for the 28 repair sites, including the Lanzhou 1st Street drain cover, did not match the dates on the subsequently created construction logs, and that the work had actually been completed in advance in February 2022, before the procurement project was even contracted out.
According to the indictment, the investigation found no evidence that Yeh had violated the Anti-Corruption Act.
According to the indictment from the Chiayi District Prosecutors Office, when Section Chief Yeh was a technician at the Chiayi City West District Office, he was responsible for the procurement case of the 2022 open-end contract for the maintenance of road-affiliated facilities in the West District. This contract was awarded on March 3, 2022, to a civil engineering contracting company run by Mr. Lin. The contract required Lin to dispatch workers for repairs or emergency fixes upon notification from the district office.
The Prosecutors Office stated that Yeh knowingly prepared official documents with false information for 28 maintenance and repair sites, including a damaged drain cover on Lanzhou 1st Street, for which he sought approval in April 2022. In reality, the work had already been completed by Lin's company before the contract was awarded (i.e., before March 2022). He then submitted these documents to his unsuspecting superiors for approval and implementation.
The Prosecutors Office said that Lin cooperated by creating construction logs with false information and submitting them to the design and supervision company managed by Chiu. Subsequently, they applied for partial inspection and acceptance from the West District Office, which undermined the accuracy of the office's contract performance management. The case was referred to the Chiayi District Prosecutors Office for investigation under the direction of the Ministry of Justice's Agency Against Corruption.
The Prosecutors Office reported that Yeh and the other two men confessed upon being questioned. They admitted that the construction dates for the 28 repair sites, including the Lanzhou 1st Street drain cover, did not match the dates on the subsequently created construction logs, and that the work had actually been completed in advance in February 2022, before the procurement project was even contracted out.
According to the indictment, the investigation found no evidence that Yeh had violated the Anti-Corruption Act.