Second trial in the case of misappropriation of Sichuan teacher: key witnesses suspected of having been present at first instance

Rodegen, a physics teacher at Sichuan Acre, was accused of misappropriating $3.24 million for 19 years as the head of the printing plant at the school. The case was heard in the third instance by the Guangwon Mejlis in the Kokuk County Court on 20 August.

Rodegen, the data.

According to the presentations by the participants, during this hearing the prosecution upheld its earlier opinion that the facts at first instance were clear and that the sentence should be upheld. For its part, Rodegen and his defence maintain that, between 2008 and 2019, Rodegen contracted the school printing plant “at his own expense” by a contract, and that after paying $100,000 a year in contract, he was entitled to the additional proceeds, which did not constitute an appropriation of public property.

After the hearing had been held on the same day until 5 p.m., the presiding judge adjourned the trial and the case was to be adjourned.

Earlier, it was reported that Rodegen had been appointed as the head of the school printing plant for 19 years and had been sentenced to 10 years in first instance for embezzlement of over $3.24 million in profits through the uncounted accounts of shell enterprises in November

1. The argument that the printing plant was privately contracted and that the profits should have been earned after the payment of the management fee was not accepted by the court.

Rudger appealed against the first instance judgement. In July this year, family members and defence counsel indicated that the request for access to audio-visual recordings of the hearings had been rejected by the Court for technical reasons. The court of second instance concerned indicated that the system was in a state of trouble and that the company was working on it.

The Court also conducted an investigation during this recess to determine whether the case was heard by key witnesses at the first instance.

On 25 August, the persons who were present in the case informed the press that the Akiko Court had been technically repaired and had re-acquired the video of the hearing in the first instance in the Rodegen case and made it available to the defence for review. The defence found a witness, Cao Tsao, who was heavily suspected of having testified in the first instance.

The Court found that it was difficult to ascertain by the technical means available to the defence that the Red Man was indeed a witness, that the evidence available did not exclude the possibility that the witness, Cao, had been present at the first hearing of the case, and that, on the basis of the principle of “in the interest of the accused in case of doubt”, it had decided not to rely on the testimony of the witness, Cao and another witness in the second trial.

“On the day of the opening of the session on 20 August, the trial judge, President Li Chiu, who was a member of the trial court in the first instance in the Rodegen Corruption trial, was appointed by the Standing Committee of the Cantonese People's Congress to serve as Vice-President of the Guangwon Intermediate People's Court and as a member of the trial committee. The family said that Rodegen and his defence had also filed an application for disqualification against Judge Li.

The family explained that Le Chi had participated in the deliberations of the trial committee in the case, that it had a significant impact on the crimes and non-crimes of the Rodigan corruption case, and that there was a close interest in whether the court of second instance had remanded the case to a new trial. At the same time, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, the trial judge may not participate in the different proceedings in the same case, and Li should also recuse himself from the case.

• The press, Sten.

(This is from News, more original information please download News app)

Reporting/revenue