A land dispute between the national radio station and a radio station owned by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) highlights the problems of the KMT mixing up state and party coffers during its 50-year reign, the Cabinet said yesterday.
"We're deeply upset about the former KMT administration's pocketing state assets and claiming them as its own," Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung (
"It not only makes it difficult for us to take care of the problem now but also depletes the state's coffers ... We refuse to tolerate such twisted behavior let alone appease it," Lin quoted Yu as saying.
Yu said that the Ministry of Transportation and Communications will help the national radio station, Central Broadcasting System (CBS), to appeal a court ruling stemming from a suit brought against it by KMT-owned Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC). The ministry will also assist CBS in filing a misappropriation lawsuit against BCC.
"To solve the problem once and for all, however, we're calling on the legislature to pass the statute regarding the disposition of assets improperly obtained by political parties as soon as possible," Yu said.
The Cabinet sent the statute to the legislature in September but it has made little progress.
Yu made the remarks during the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting after listening to the report delivered by Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Ling-san (
The dispute started in 1952 when the transportation ministry bought two parcels of land, totaling 10 hectares, in Minhsiung, Chiayi County for NT$150,000.
An additional NT$2 million was spent to buy broadcasting equipment for CBS, originally a subordinate department of BCC, to continue its propaganda broadcasting to China.
The land was registered under BCC but has been used by the CBS branch station in Minhsiung since then.
CBS expanded in 1972 and became the responsibility of the Ministry of National Defense in 1980.
Claiming that the land belongs to the company, BCC started requesting CBS either return or rent the two parcels of land in January 1998, but its requests were met with defiance.
Last month the Chiayi District Court ruled in favor of BCC in a lawsuit it had filed against CBS in June last year.
CBS has vowed to appeal.
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