TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Prosecutors want five celebrities to spend at least two years and eight months in prison if they are found guilty of having evaded compulsory military service, reports said Friday.

The five are actors Hsiu Jie-kai (修杰楷) and Chen Bolin (陳柏霖), boy band Energy members Kunda Hsieh (謝坤達) and Chang Shu-wei (張書偉), and boy band Lollypop member Liao Yun-chieh (廖允杰), the Liberty Times reported. Prosecutors on Friday indicted 12 suspects, including the five, on charges involving forging medical reports to evade the draft.

A defendant named Chen Chih-ming (陳志明) began doctoring documents in 2010 and helped some of the entertainers record high blood pressure allowing them to be disqualified from military service. In return, he received payments ranging from NT$100,000 (US$3,200) to NT$300,000 per case. Prosecutors requested a six-year prison term for Chen.

The five celebrities are public figures and models for the younger generation, prosecutors said. Nevertheless, they still chose to evade military service, betraying public expectations and abandoning their responsibilities as citizens.

The five entertainers would have had to serve one year in the military, so they should spend two years and eight months in prison, the prosecutors argued. The said those who were facing four months of mandatory service should spend one year in prison, and those whose service period was one year should receive prison terms of two years and two months.