A broadcaster owned by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has been rushing to sell its real estate for fear the government will appropriate the land as it takes back assets stolen by the party, DPP Legislator Yeh Yi-jin (
Yeh asked the Government Information Office (GIO) to provisionally seize lands owned by the Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC,中廣) to prevent the broadcaster from selling off the property.
Yeh produced an official document from the Ministry of Trans-portation and Communications that stated the BCC took over properties from Japan's Taiwan Broadcasting Corporation after Japan withdrew from Taiwan.
The BCC paid a little more than the equivalent of NT$28,000 in 1951 to acquire properties across Taiwan.
The lands and equipment were in Taipei, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Hualien and Taitung, Yeh said.
"Now, since the BCC fears it has to return the illegally acquired party assets, it is rushing to sell off all its real estate," she said.
Yeh revealed BCC documents showing the broadcaster made NT$8.8 billion through the sale of a building in Taipei City, NT$50 million through a land sale in Panchiao and NT$1.1 billion through a land sale in Sangchung.
"A decision to sell more land in Chiayi, Hsinchu, Taipei County and Hualien has also been made during the BCC's board meeting at the end of last year," Yeh said.
"The KMT really does not want to return its illegally gained assets. On the one hand it is saying it would return the party assets, but on the other hand it is actually selling the land off cheaply and cheating the public," she said.
"I am demanding that the GIO seize the BCC's lands to prevent the BCC from selling more off."
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