Former Taiwan Pineapple Group (
At a press conference yesterday, Huang accused Lien as well as other KMT politicians of forgetting about him after walking away with his money.
He displayed photocopies of checks that he claimed he issued to KMT politicians as political donations. One of the checks was made out to KMT policy convener Tseng Yung-chuan (
"They can deny all my political donations to the KMT, but at least Lien should pay back the amount that he owed me," Huang said.
According to Huang, the NT$10.91 million was for the taxes on a purchase of two pieces of land in Taichung County. Lien bought the land, approximately 700 ping in total, on Jan. 20, 1998.
Lien asked then-legislator Wu Tse-yuan (
Huang said that Wu had a close relationship with Lien and that he didn't think twice when Wu asked came to him for help.
"Wu said that Lien hoped that I could pay off the taxes for him and that he would then pay me back, with interest, which never happened," Huang said.
Huang also complained that his political donations to the KMT seem to have been ignored, adding that Tseng and Pingtung County Councilor Cheng Pao-chuan (
According to Huang, he donated at least NT$3.4 million for Tseng when he was running in the legislative election and another NT$600,000 for Cheng in his bid to become a councilor.
Asked why he decided make the allegations against the KMT right before the election, Huang said, "I simply hated their propaganda against their opponents."
Huang also wrote to the media on Monday, stating that he had twice provided political donations to the KMT. Huang said that his donations were similar to the bribery scandal involving former Tuntex chairman Chen Yu-hao (陳由豪).
Huang said the first donation was made in 1998, when he gave NT$100 million to the KMT as a political donation to prevent the stock price of Taiwan Pineapple from falling.
The second donation was made in 1999 when Wu, then a legislator, offered to help Huang get a loan from a state-run bank if Huang agreed to pay a kickback, according to Huang.
The donations were both linked to Lien, and Huang implied that Lien took a part of the donations.
The US government has signed defense cooperation agreements with Japan and the Philippines to boost the deterrence capabilities of countries in the first island chain, a report by the National Security Bureau (NSB) showed. The main countries on the first island chain include the two nations and Taiwan. The bureau is to present the report at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee tomorrow. The US military has deployed Typhon missile systems to Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture and Zambales province in the Philippines during their joint military exercises. It has also installed NMESIS anti-ship systems in Japan’s Okinawa
TRAGEDY STRIKES TAIPEI: The suspect died after falling off a building after he threw smoke grenades into Taipei Main Station and went on a killing spree in Zhongshan A 27-year-old suspect allegedly threw smoke grenades in Taipei Main Station and then proceeded to Zhongshan MRT Station in a random killing spree that resulted in the death of the suspect and two other civilians, and seven injured, including one in critical condition, as of press time last night. The suspect, identified as a man surnamed Chang Wen (張文), allegedly began the attack at Taipei Main Station, the Taipei Fire Department said, adding that it received a report at 5:24pm that smoke grenades had been thrown in the station. One man in his 50s was rushed to hospital after a cardiac arrest
‘WIN-WIN’: The Philippines, and central and eastern European countries are important potential drone cooperation partners, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung said Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) in an interview published yesterday confirmed that there are joint ventures between Taiwan and Poland in the drone industry. Lin made the remark in an exclusive interview with the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper). The government-backed Taiwan Excellence Drone International Business Opportunities Alliance and the Polish Chamber of Unmanned Systems on Wednesday last week signed a memorandum of understanding in Poland to develop a “non-China” supply chain for drones and work together on key technologies. Asked if Taiwan prioritized Poland among central and eastern European countries in drone collaboration, Lin
ON ALERT: Taiwan’s partners would issue warnings if China attempted to use Interpol to target Taiwanese, and the global body has mechanisms to prevent it, an official said China has stationed two to four people specializing in Taiwan affairs at its embassies in several democratic countries to monitor and harass Taiwanese, actions that the host nations would not tolerate, National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) said yesterday. Tsai made the comments at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, which asked him and Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) to report on potential conflicts in the Taiwan Strait and military preparedness. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Michelle Lin (林楚茵) expressed concern that Beijing has posted personnel from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office to its
RSS