The National Security Council (NSC) yesterday denied a news report that one of its staff members who has allegedly done business in China may have sold sensitive information to China.
According to the local news report, Peggy Chang (張佩珍), a senior specialist and personal secretary to the council's Secretary-General Kang Ning-hsiang (康寧祥), established a venture-capital real-estate firm in Shanghai with a partner company under the control of Beijing's Ministry of Railways.
The National Security Council issued a statement in response to the news report yesterday, saying that the report is not true, and Chang has had no connection with the real estate firm before or after she was assigned as a senior specialist of the council on April 1.
Chang resigned from her post yesterday and her resignation was approved immediately after the news report was published.
She had been working for the Chung-hua Institute of Economics as a research fellow for more than 20 years specializing in the Chinese economy before she joined the council, said the NSC statement, and she was responsible for the analysis of pertinent intelligence about economic development in China.
The council said Chang has never dealt with anything regarding top-secret national security intelligence in her post as a policy analyst and counselor.
NSC said it has a sound mechanism of strict internal inspection on members' loyalty and deeds. If there was a doubt that the internal security may be sabotaged, the council would react at once according to the law.
Legislators responding to the report said the national security of this nation may have been damaged if Chang did leek secrets.
"Civil servants should not invest in China, especially those involved with the national security matters," said Liao Pen-yen, the TSU legislator.
"The government should manage the problem as soon as possible," Liao said.
Peggy Chang's husband, Chang Jui-meng (
Chang Jui-meng was the former CEO of the Institute for National Policy Research (
The NSC said in the statement that Peggy Chang has nothing to do with what happened to her husband.
But KMT legislative caucus leader Lee Chia-chin (
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