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The indictment vindicated Shen, who reported last year that he had been followed and found a pinhole camera disguised as a scooter screw outside his home, and who said he also received threatening letters with the word death written on a photo of his wife.

KMT Taipei City Councillor Yang Qitu, who had suggested Shen might be ill for making the claims, publicly apologised and said he was wrong and sorry, as the case dovetailed with Shen's combative appearance on TVBS's Shao Kang War Room, where host Chao Shao Kang pressed him on marijuana policy and the death penalty.

Next in political news, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Su Chia-ching tearfully resigned on Tuesday after the Taiwan People's Party accused her family of parasitizing the council, alleging her 14-year-old son had posed as an official photographer on overseas trips and that her husband used ministry cars.

Xu had previously been fined 100,000 New Taiwan Dollars by the Control for failing to recuse herself from a conflict of interest.