Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers called for a Control Yuan investigation yesterday into whether Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (
Four DPP lawmakers -- Chiu Tai-san (
PHOTO: LU CHUN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
Lien should report his family's wealth to the Control Yuan as he was premier of the country from 1993 to 1996 and the electorate voted him in as vice president in 1996, they said. His vice presidency expired in May 2000.
PHOTO: LU CHUN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
The lawmakers said Lien should also report his personal assets to the Central Election Commission (CEC) since he ran in presidential elections in 1996 and 2000.
The DPP lawmakers told Control Yuan member Chao Chang-ping (
The house was registered under the name of Lien Fang Yu (
"Premier Lien did not report the property in Boston on his assets claim in 1993. The overseas real estate was never seen on any of Lien's assets reports to the Control Yuan's public functionary assets disclosure department until he left the vice presidential post in 2000," Gao said yesterday.
The DPP members also discovered that Lien concealed the overseas property on his two reports to the CEC. Candidates are required to disclose personal wealth when they register in an election.
The lawmakers urged the Control Yuan to find out whether Lien violated the disclosure rule, as he did not mention the donation of NT$200 million to victims of the 921 earthquake on the official disclosure in 1999 and 2000.
The DPP believes Lien may have lied on the official property claim or must have other concealed property leading to the unchanged personal wealth he reported in 2000 after the monetary donation.
The DPP caucus, meanwhile, berated the KMT yesterday for blurring the wealth dispute with a fuzzy explanation.
"The KMT just made another obscure explanation for its controversial assets," DPP Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (
Tuan referred to an earlier press conference at which KMT officials said the party complied with the law when it obtained the land for its headquarters.
Tuan said the KMT should answer whether it will return gains from selling a number of party assets stolen from Japanese officials and civilians.
The KMT had sold 11 theaters taken from the Japanese and purchased several office buildings at an unreasonably low price, according to Tuan.
The DPP lawmaker said the KMT sold a Taipei City office building at the intersection of Zhongxiao East Road and Linsen South Road to a private company for NT$455 million, while it bought the land from the Taipei City Government in 1972 for NT$2.63 million, only one-third the market price at the time.
The KMT also sold an office building in downtown Taipei in 1998, generating a profit of more than NT$512 million, Tuan said.
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