The KMT is planning to request that the Control Yuan impeach Premier Yu Shyi-kun over what the party claims are falsified numbers in the 2004 budgets the Cabinet submitted to the Legislative Yuan.
Chinese-language media quoted KMT legislative caucus leader Lee Chia-chin (李嘉進) as saying there are suspicions that numbers in the defense, social welfare and pensions and compensation budgets have been falsified.
According to the report, Lee said the Cabinet deliberately increased the amount for this year's defense budget by NT$15.5 billion to make it seem as if the 2004 defense budget was being raised by a smaller amount than it actually is.
Lee was quoted as saying that this year's budgets for social welfare and pensions and compensation had been deliberately reduced to make it seem as if spending in these areas would increase next year.
Lee reportedly said that the KMT legislative caucus would ask the Control Yuan to impeach Yu for the Cabinet's forgery of documents and public lies and he urged judicial authorities to investigate possible criminal liabilities.
In response to Lee's claims, DPP Legislator Chen Chin-jun (陳景峻) was quoted as saying that the budget text clearly stated that adjustments had been made to certain headings. He said the KMT had not read the whole text and that there was no question of any mistakes in the relevant data.
Chen was quoted as saying that the section the KMT claims contain the falsifications was explained in detail towards the end of the budget text.
He also said that the social insurance expenditure and pensions and compensation expenditures for personnel employed by the defense ministry -- which previously were listed under the social welfare and the pensions and compensation headings -- had been moved to defense expenditures.
Chen said not one single figure in the 2004 budget was wrong.
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