Former Xinfeng Township Mayor Xu Maogan was impeached by the prison for dumping his own waste and corrupting officials

The Supervisory Yuan pointed out that Xu Maogan, the former head of Xinfeng Township, Hsinchu County, was suspected of taking advantage of his position to demand that the business owner demolish his sister-in-law’s old house for free, and then instruct his subordinates to open up the landfill for the business owner to dump waste illegally, for the benefit of himself and others. The illegal circumstances are serious. Corrupting the image of officials and heads of local organs, the Supervisory Yuan passed the impeachment and transferred it to the Correctional Court for trial.

Xu Maogan, the former mayor of Xinfeng Township in Hsinchu County, was impeached by the Prison for a corrupt official who dumped his own waste for profit. (Central News Agency file photo)

According to the articles of impeachment by the Overwatch Council, in March 2017, Xu Maogan entrusted a businessman surnamed Lu to demolish the old house for his sister-in-law, and verbally promised to contract the improvement project of the ditch in front of the old house to the businessman named Lu in the name of Xinfeng Township Office. The construction company works to make up for the economic loss of the demolition project of the old house which is carried out free of charge by the industry.

The article of impeachment pointed out that in the demolition project of the old house, the owner of the surname Lu was unwilling to absorb the disposal costs of the waste bricks, cement blocks, concrete blocks and other construction wastes produced by the demolition project. Therefore, Xu Maogan arranged for the Qingming Festival in 107. During the holiday period, the illegal release of the industry will build mixed waste and transport it to the Xinfeng landfill for dumping.

In addition, a technician surnamed Lin from the cleaning team of Xinfeng Township Office also published on the official document that the operator surnamed Lu was applying for the removal of “two carts of branches and leaves” and other false content; the operator surnamed Lu had to absorb the demolition costs by himself Unwilling to do so, it also looked for a mixed source of construction waste in Beipu land to earn additional transportation costs. During the period, there were at least 117 vehicles illegally entering the site to dump construction waste, of which 33 were from the old house demolition project and 84 were from Beipu land. At least 899.48 metric tons. The operator surnamed Lu also gave the cleaning team a red envelope of NT$15,000 because of the release of the cleaning team.

The article of impeachment pointed out that according to the reply letter from the Hsinchu County Resource Recycling and Waste Removal Business Association, the legal cost of removing mixed waste for construction is about 800 yuan per metric ton. The cost of removing the mixed construction waste piled up on the Pu land is about 526,760 yuan.

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