TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Prosecutors have indicted former No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant manager Tseng Wen-huang (曾文煌) just weeks after the Taipei District Court sentenced him to seven years in prison in another corruption case, Liberty Times reported Thursday.
While serving as deputy manager of the plant in Wanli, New Taipei, Tseng and four other officials allegedly accepted a total of NT$10.1 million (US$313,700) in bribes involving five procurement cases, prosecutors said. From 2018 to 2022, the company involved won five contracts worth a total of NT$125.99 million.
The investigation grew out of scrutiny of three other procurement cases in 2024, which led prosecutors to allege that Tseng had entered a bribery arrangement with businessperson Hao Chih-heng (郝致衡) in 2018. In the earlier case, the Taipei District Court last month sentenced Hao to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years, and ordered him to pay NT$2 million to the national treasury.
Tseng was sentenced to seven years in the earlier case for accepting NT$2.2 million in bribes. Liberty Times reported that the case is on appeal before the Taiwan High Court.
