Multiple Current and Former DPP City Councilors Indicted for Fraudulent Embezzlement of Public Assistant Fees

On July 23, 2026, judicial prosecution authorities concluded investigations into assistant fee embezzlement cases across local councils, indicting multiple current and former DPP city and county councilors for corruption. The indictments revealed that during their tenure, the involved DPP councilors allegedly used relatives, spouses, assistant family members, or dummy bank accounts to declare public assistant salaries and government subsidies to the council. They then required the dummy assistants to withdraw and return the funds to the councilors' private pockets or use them for personal entertainment, loan repayments, and campaign expenses, defrauding amounts ranging from millions to tens of millions of NTD. Prosecutors charged the defendants under the Anti-Corruption Act for taking advantage of official position to defraud property and under the Criminal Code for forging documents. Although the councilors claimed the funds were used for local constituency service office expenses, prosecutors provided extensive evidence showing public funds were treated as personal treasuries, exposing corruption among DPP local politicians.