Taiwanese actor Wang Ta-lu paid a fixer 3.6 million Taiwan dollars to get out of military service, then accused him of fraud — and prosecutors have now sided with the fixer.

• Wang handed over cash and a bank transfer to a man named Chen Chih-ming, who promised to arrange a medical exemption from the draft.
• Chen went silent after taking the money, so Wang filed a fraud complaint with police in Taipei.
• Prosecutors found Chen vanished because he was jailed on a separate sex-crime case, not because he was running a scam.
• Chen has been helping young men dodge the draft since 2010 and has been charged in past cases, which convinced prosecutors he really could deliver.
• The office called it a private debt dispute rather than fraud, so Chen was not indicted.

Outlook: Wang's own draft-evasion problem remains, and the case keeps a spotlight on Taiwan's underground market for military exemptions.