{"id":148612,"date":"2026-03-26T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148612"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:00:07","slug":"taiwanese-court-jails-former-taipei-mayor-ko-wen-je-for-17-years-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148612","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese court jails former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je for 17 years for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for taking bribes and misusing political donations, dealing a heavy blow to the opposition party he built.<br \/>\nKo, who founded the Taiwan People\u2019s Party (TPP) in 2019 and finished last in a three-way race for the island\u2019s top political job in 2024, did not plead guilty, according to Taiwanese media reports.<br \/>\nThe TPP is the third-biggest party in Taiwanese politics and has been in talks with the larger Kuomintang (KMT) to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3348010\/taiwanese-court-jails-former-taipei-mayor-ko-wen-je-17-years-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for taking bribes and misusing political donations, dealing a heavy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}