The Control Yuan yesterday asked police to investigate diplomats Lily Hsu (
The government watchdog also ordered that the two officials be removed from their posts.
"Lily Hsu and Chang Jia-hua have been negligent at their posts and they have been careless in reviewing application documents. They have broken the law and damaged the image of the government," the Control Yuan wrote in its statement.
"They have committed a major blunder and are hereby judged to be unfit for their current positions. It is necessary to remove them from their posts forthwith," it said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs suspended Chang from his post two days ago.
The Control Yuan statement added that Wang's wife, Yeh Hsiu-chen (葉秀貞), had failed to provide several items of information on the form.
The information included her spouse's name and details of her previous passport.
It also said that when Yeh's new passport was collected, the column for a signature of receipt was left blank.
The decision to discipline Hsu and Chang follows Control Yuan questioning of former representative to the UK Tien Hung-mao (
The investigating team said that it was yet to decide whether it would issue a separate disciplinary order for other officials.
It was suggested, however, that they would likely be from the ministry, the bureau and the representative office in the UK.
The Control Yuan also asked the London office to continue applying pressure on the British Home Office and other British government agencies to help locate and detain Wang.
Wang is a former arms dealer suspected of involvement in the corruption-tainted sale of French Lafayette-class frigates to Taipei in the 1990s.
He is wanted in connection with the death of navy Captain Yin Ching-feng (尹清楓).
Yin was the head of the navy's Arms Acquisition Office.
His body was found floating off the nation's east coast on Dec. 9, 1993.
His death prompted an investigation into irregularities surrounding the purchase of the French frigates.
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