Does Borrowing Bail Money Signal Flight Risk? The Taipei Prosecutors' Hallucinatory Logic and Partisan Double Standards
In the high-profile detention hearings of Ko Wen-je, prosecutors from the Taipei District Prosecutors Office astonishingly argued that because his initial 30-million-dollar bail was borrowed from ally Huang Kuo-chang, it constituted 'other people's money' and thus heightened his flight risk. This analysis deconstructs the flawed reasoning behind weaponizing personal debt as criminal intent, contrasting astronomical political bails against trivial sums granted to multimillion-dollar fraud ringleaders who promptly abscond abroad.