Taiwan's top actor Wang Dalu said he would appeal the verdict after being sentenced to six months in prison for violating the Personal Information Protection Act.
According to Taiwan media ETtoday on the 23rd, New Taipei District Court sentenced Wang Dalu to six months in prison on the 22nd in the first trial on charges of violating the Personal Information Protection Act. The sentence can be replaced by a fine, but Wang Dalu's legal team said they would appeal.
Earlier, in 2024 Wang Dalu attempted to obtain an exemption by paying A, the ringleader of an organization that helps evade military service, 3.6 million New Taiwan dollars (about 150 million won in our currency) to have his military records forged.
But after A was arrested and detained on separate fraud and drug charges, contact was suddenly cut off. Unaware of the circumstances, Wang Dalu mistakenly thought he had been defrauded and reported it to the police, and in the process it was revealed that he had illegally investigated A's personal information by using his connections and a police officer who was acting head of the Taipei City criminal division at the time.
While police were investigating Wang Dalu's fraud complaint by examining his cellphone, they ended up catching him instead. The extensive data on the phone exposed his attempt to evade military service, and investigators accidentally uncovered another criminal allegation that he instructed an acquaintance to arrange for an Uber driver to be assaulted, causing a major shock.
This opened the curtain on the largest military service evasion case in Taiwan's history, and so far it has been revealed that 26 entertainers, including Wang Dalu, were involved. Of those, 25 have been indicted, and the fallout has continued for nearly a year.
Afterward, Wang Dalu performed alternative service at the Taipei City government social affairs department, and he was quietly discharged in March.
Meanwhile, Wang Dalu debuted as an actor in the 2008 drama Byakuryoku MIT and, after about seven years of obscurity, rose to stardom when the 2015 film My Teen Romantic Comedy (My Girlhood) became a big hit. He later appeared in 28 Beloved, A Better Tomorrow 4, and It Started with a Kiss, among others.
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