By Fion Khan / Staff writer, with CNA
Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) has been sentenced to 17 years in jail and deprived of his civil rights for six years.
The ruling can be appealed.
Ko, who also founded and chaired the Taiwan People’s Party, was accused of receiving bribes from Core Pacific Group (威京集團) chairman Sheen Ching-jing (沈慶京) in exchange for granting an illegal increase in the project’s floor-area ratio.
Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times
He was released in September last year on bail of NT$70 million (US$2.2 million), after being held incommunicado for a year
Prosecutors sought a 28-and-a-half-year sentence for Ko.