Ko’s full awareness of his crime self-evidentBy Yeh Yu-cheng 葉昱呈In Taiwan’s judicial practice, it is not easy to establish the crime of corruption. Firstly, in the case of the Core Pacific City (京華城購物中心) redevelopment project, there was no alleged cognitive gap. Because such cases lack awareness of illegality, they generally do not constitute a crime of seeking unlawful gains. The relevant claims in this case had already been rejected through administrative appeal and failed in administrative litigation, so the legal judgement was not undetermined. In summary, the Core Pacific City corruption case was not a mere error in administrative judgement.

Source: Taipei Times March 28, 2026 18:31 UTC