The The Taitung District Prosecutors' Office has released former Taitung
County magistrate Wu Chun-li on bail of 5-million N-T and ordered him to wear
an electronic monitor.

Wu was granted bail by the Taitung District Court after prosecutors had
requested his detention as part of an investigation in allegations that an
agricultural road-widening project unlawfully benefited a project linked to
Wu's family's interests.

Prosecutors had requested his detention citing concerns he could collude with
other suspects in the case to falsify testimony and is considered a flight
risk.

The investigation began in May after independent Taitung County Councilor Lin
Tsan-tien alleged the county government had used public funds to build a road
serving a resort complex.

The agricultural road was supposed to be three meters wide, but was allegedly
widened to more than nine meters, and state-owned land was also involved in
the project.

Prosecutors have not say when the road-widening project occurred, but reports
indicateit happened sometime in the past two to three years.

Several other individuals have already been detained in connection with the
case and they include the director of the county government’s department of
agriculture; a section chief in charge of the road widening project; and an
employee at the resort complex.