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ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 3690 • Posted: Thursday July 10, 2003  

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Taipei Times, July 10, 2003
http://www.taipeitimes.com/
By Fiona Lu, STAFF REPORTER

The Control Yuan yesterday censured the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice, Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office and the Taipei municipal police bureau for their role in the investigation of a controversial cult leader.

Sung Chi-li was convicted of fraud last year after he was accused of fabricating pictures of himself demonstrating his supernatural powers and selling them to members of an association named after him. The conviction was overturned in January.

Sung’s followers include Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh and his wife.

“The Control Yuan members ordered corrective measures for the Ministry of Interior because of flawed handling in revoking the legitimacy of the Sung Chi-li Association,” the Control Yuan report said.

“The ministry obviously announced the revocation as a result of Sung’s case being widely reported by local media,” the report concluded.

The district public prosecutors’ office was censured because the chief prosecutor in the case, Hsueh Wei-ping, gave information to the media while the investigation was still underway and violated the principle that suspects are innocent until proven guilty, the report said.

The Control Yuan investigation also concluded that Hou You-yi, who led the Taipei municipal criminal investigation corps at that time, and Hou’s deputy, Frank Chiu, who later succeeded Hou, both neglected their responsibility of overseeing their subordinates.

The report also accused the two police administrators of searching Sung’s headquarters without a search warrant and improperly accounting for impounded property.

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