Entertainer Fanny Liu gestures in Taipei in this file photo. “What I’m doing here is not vote-buying, but rather it is intervening in the elections with Chinese capital,” she wrote. A Taiwanese Facebook user saw the post and passed a screenshot of it to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. After an investigation confirmed the payment, prosecutors charged Liu with vote-buying. Liu said the NT$1,000 was to cover the cost of taxi fare to the polling station, they added.

Source: Taipei Times May 28, 2020 15:56 UTC