Prosecutors indict 13 suspects in Taipei Buddhist cult murder case
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Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Taipei prosecutors on Thursday indicted 13 people in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at the meeting place of a Buddhist group in the city’s Da’an District last year.
Upon completing their investigation into the case, prosecutors indicted the 13 suspects for crimes including causing bodily injuries leading to death, complicity in causing bodily injuries leading to death, and coercion.
Those charged included the group’s spiritual leader, the Buddhism writer Wang Yun (王薀), as well as Taiwanese actor Lee Wei (李威), whom prosecutors said had turned state’s witness in return for a reduced sentence.
Police received a tip-off in late July 2024 about a woman found lying motionless in a first-floor property on a residential block on Siwei Road in downtown Taipei.
After arriving at the scene, police found the woman surnamed Tsai (蔡), a follower of the religious group that gathered at the meeting place, with no vital signs.
A subsequent autopsy determined that the woman died of rhabdomyolysis, a complex medical condition involving the rapid dissolution of damaged or injured skeletal muscle.
It is most often caused by direct traumatic injury, according to the National Library of Medicine, a United States National Institutes of Health website.
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