By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter, with CNAThe New Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office on Wednesday indicted 15 people for evading mandatory military service or assisting others in doing so, including a former boy band member and a rapper.請繼續往下閱讀...Prosecutors uncovered the scheme last year following an investigation into actor Darren Wang （王大陸）, who allegedly faked a heart condition to avoid mandatory military service with the assistance of Chen Chi-ming （陳志明）.In April, Wang was sentenced to six months in prison for unlawfully obtaining personal data to avoid service.The office on Wednesday indicted 15 people, including Chen, Chiu Sheng-yi （邱勝翊, better known as Prince, 王子） from the Taiwanese boy band Lollipop, rapper Chang Jie-rui （張傑瑞） and Internet personality Shao Kai-hung （邵凱宏）.The charges included forgery and evading conscription by illegally manipulating one’s physical status.According to the indictment, Chen was exempt from military service due to severe hypertension.Beginning in 2011, Chen charged 12 conscripts between NT$50,000 and NT$350,000 each, and told them to hold their breath to artificially raise their blood pressure readings, prosecutors said.Chen would then wear a blood pressure monitor at their residence to help them obtain medical certificates showing severe hypertension, they said.Chiu admitted during questioning that he did not have hypertension and had paid Chen NT$300,000 to help him evade service, prosecutors said.By the time investigators launched the first three crackdowns, several other members of Lollipop had already been implicated, they said.Chiu nevertheless did not voluntarily turn himself in, and instead repeatedly denied the allegations, they added.Given Chiu’s statutory one-year service term, prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to at least two years and two months in prison.Prosecutors recommended the same sentence for four other conscripts whose statutory service term was one year.For five others who were required to serve four months, prosecutors are seeking sentences of at least one year.As two other conscripts denied the charges, prosecutors are recommending sentences of at least one year and three months and one year and six months respectively.Prosecutors recommended that Chen Chih-ming, whom they described as having played a key role in the scheme, be sentenced to at least five years in prison.“If they receive probation or are allowed to commute a fine, it would send a message to all other conscripts that ... even if they get caught, the problem can be easily solved through money,” the office said, recommending that the court not grant leniency.新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
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