Taiwan's High Court has upheld heavy prison terms for two former lawmakers in the SOGO department store bribery scandal while acquitting two others, a mixed result that leaves the biggest convictions intact.

• Former lawmaker Su Chen-ching keeps his 10-year sentence, and former KMT lawmaker Liao Kuo-tung keeps 8 years and 6 months.
• KMT lawmaker Chen Chao-ming and former lawmaker Tsui Yung-ming were both found not guilty on appeal, reversing convictions from the first trial.
• The case centers on businessman Lee Heng-lung, who paid lawmakers to pressure the Economics Ministry and push a company-law change so he could regain control of SOGO.
• Su was found to have taken about NT$25.8 million disguised as loans, billboard fees, and campaign money over more than five years, using questions and bills in parliament as the payback.
• Lee himself got a light sentence, suspended, with a payment to the public treasury; independent former lawmaker Chao Cheng-yu kept a 6-month term for tax evasion.

Outlook: Prosecutors are likely to push the case to Taiwan's Supreme Court, so the acquittals may not be the final word.