Detectives bailed after confessing to videotaping

Of the four, Chen Yuan-ping, head of the Taichung branch, was freed on bail of NT$80,000. Chen Hsiu-ching and Lee Man-shih, who carried out the secret videotaping job in China in May, were released on bail of NT$50,000, and Hsu Yu-fen, who is in charge of the firm’s accounting affairs, was bailed out for NT$20,000.

The four were bailed out after confessing to the alleged illegal practice of secretly videotaping intimate behavior of Huang Chin-hsiao, director of the Economic Development Department under the Taichung City Government.

They told prosecutors that they were commissioned to do the job by a company client, and prosecutors are likely to question the client to better understand the truth of the whole story.

Prosecutors and investigators raided the Taichung branch office of Gwo Hwa Detective Co. on Friday, confiscating relevant account books and information. The action came after Huang sued the detective company for offending his privacy.

Huang recently took a blow at the Taichung City Council when apologizing for having a drinking session with a couple of women at a karaoke parlor during a trip to China in May.

The videotapes showing Huang drinking with the women, including some allegedly intimate behavior, have been distributed to local TV channels by unknown individuals.

Huang said he was set up because two women took the initiative to approach him at the Fuzhou Airport in China’s southern Fujian Province in a casual encounter during a stopover last month.

The women had actually followed him around all along the trip. Sources alleged that the whole affair could have been staged by the owner of a construction company after some of the realty development projects were allegedly blocked by Huang.

The two women were identified as Chen Hsiu-ching and Lee Man-shih, two senior employees of the Taichung branch of the Gwo Hwa Detective Co.

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