The Yilan District Prosecutors' Office has filed an appeal against the Yilan District Court's decision to sentence Yilan County Magistrate Lin Zi-miao to 12 1/2 years in prison.
The appeal comes after Lin was found guilty last December of seeking illegal gains through her supervisory role as a public official, money laundering and having unaccounted-for assets as a public official.
According to the prosecutors' office, it is seeking to have Lin retried on charges related to allegations she gave a tax waiver to a Luodong Township landowner.
The district court determined during the trial there was insufficient evidence to prove Lin had engaged in corruption.
Prosecutors are describing district court's verdict as "flawed" - saying and that the sentences for Lin and 13 other defendants were all too lenient.
Lin was indicted along with 14 other people in 2022 over a scheme to waive 1.12-million N-T in land value increment tax for a plot of land in Luodong Township.
Prosecutors says the landowner in return provided land used for Lin's campaign headquarters in 2018 and the K-M-T's Yilan campaign headquarters ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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