林益世 (LínYìshì): Lin Yi-shih (1968-)

Meanings

1 Lin Yi-shih (1968-)
2 Taiwanese politician, former Kuomintang legislator and Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan, convicted in a 2012 corruption scandal

Characters

林

Examples

林益世曾任国民党立法委员。

Lín Yìshì céng rèn Guómíndǎng lìfǎ wěiyuán.

Lin Yi-shih was formerly a Kuomintang legislator.

2012年林益世因贪污案被起诉。

Èr líng yī èr nián Lín Yìshì yīn tānwū àn bèi qǐsù.

In 2012, Lin Yi-shih was indicted on corruption charges.

Tips

history

Lin Yi-shih's 2012 case — in which he was accused of demanding NT$63 million in kickbacks from a steel slag contractor while serving as Executive Yuan Secretary-General under President Ma Ying-jeou — became one of Taiwan's most high-profile corruption trials. After years of appeals he was finally sentenced in 2020 to 12 years in prison.

culture

Taiwanese names are conventionally romanized in Wade-Giles or Tongyong Pinyin, so '林益世' appears in English-language press as 'Lin Yi-shih' rather than the Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin 'Lin Yishi'.