Chen Ou-po

Former Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker Chen Ou-po, who served three terms representing Yilan County, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Taipei District Court on April 14, 2026, for corruption, embezzlement, and money laundering. The court found that Chen, while in office, accepted approximately NT$4.63 million in bribes from United Logistics International Co. to influence transportation policies and facilitate legislative amendments. He also accepted a NT$500,000 bribe from a car rental association to intervene in motor transportation regulations. Additionally, Chen and his wife, Hsu Hui-yu, were found guilty of fraudulently inflating the salaries of publicly funded assistants between 2012 and 2022 to misappropriate over NT$4.11 million for office and personal expenses. Hsu was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. Chen was previously detained in June 2025 and released on NT$5 million bail in November 2025. While he admitted to the assistant salary fraud, he denied the bribery charges during his trial. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 24 years and two months. Separately, in 2014, Chen was suspended from Democratic Progressive Party caucus activities for six months following an incident where he was viewed as creating a disturbance at the funeral of President Ma Ying-jeou's mother.