Taiwan actor Darren Wang denies wrongdoing in case over illegally obtained data used to recover girlfriend's money
He says he only set up a group chat and left them to it.
Taiwan actor Darren Wang and his girlfriend, Chueh Mu-hsuan, appeared at the High Court on September 30 for the first hearing of their appeal in a Personal Data Protection Act case. Both deny the allegations of guilt. Former police officer Liu Chu-jung admitted to the offense for which he had been convicted at first instance, as reported by Yahoo News Taiwan.
Prosecutors alleged that Wang sought Yu Hsiang-min's assistance twice in regards to retrieving personal data. The first incident involved a man named Pan, from whom Chueh was attempting to recover NT$4 million (S$160,173) in investment-related debt. The second case concerned Chen Chih-ming, the leader of a draft-evasion ring whom Wang disliked after allegedly receiving payment without delivering the service.
During the court proceedings, Wang explained that he asked someone to locate a man known as "Xiao Hei," using only the nickname, without disclosing his real name. Once he discovered Chen was imprisoned, Wang claimed he informed them there was no need to continue searching for him. In the debt case, Wang stated he approached Yu to aid his girlfriend in recovering the stolen money.
Since neither Wang nor Chueh knew each other, he created a group chat for them to communicate directly. He stated he only occasionally sent polite messages like "thank you" and was unaware of the subsequent data lookups or debt collection.
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