Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (
The KMT declined to respond.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
Last month Tuan said that the Lien family owned a company in California and that in order to evade taxes it did not list the company as among its assets. In response, the KMT produced a document from the State of California that it said proved that the Lien family had long ago sold the company.
Two days ago Tuan produced evidence that he said showed that the document from the KMT, which lacked a state seal, had not been processed by the State of California but instead was only an application form that anyone could download from the Internet and proved nothing.
Tuan also showed what he said was an official document from California with the seal affixed.
Yesterday Tuan produced a document from the State of California, signed by California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on March 2, apparently certifying that the company was still owned by the Liens.
Attached to the document were two pages of company statements apparently showing that Lien's wife, Lien Fang Yu (
Tuan said that he had been in contact with the California government and was told that there had been no changes in the company directors.
"The Lien family said that my documents were forged, but if the company had really been sold, there would have been related documents," Tuan said.
"The Liens have been unable to offer any," Tuan said.
The KMT seemed to show little interest in fighting with Tuan over this issue again.
"We have offered the document from the California secretary of state and explained the situation, and we are not interested in responding again," KMT spokesman Alex Tsai (
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