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