After months of investigating a scandal involving presidential housekeeper Lo Shih Li-yun (羅施麗雲), the Control Yuan is preparing to issue several correctional orders to various governmental agen-cies. According to a Chinese-language newspaper, the Control Yuan's national defense committee is slated to discuss the correctional orders today in a last-minute addition to its agenda.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the National Police Agency, the Central Personnel Admin-istration and the National Security Bureau (NSB) are expected to receive correctional orders today.
The Control Yuan is also considering starting impeachment proceedings against former deputy chief of the NSB special service center Chiu Chung-nan (邱忠男), the president's former chief aide-de-camp Lieutenant General Chen Tsai-fu (
The Control Yuan's investigation was instigated following criticism in the media and from opposition politicians that the first family abused its privileges. Lo was accused of taking advantage of a security guard surnamed Chen, a military official assigned to serve as driver for the first family.
She had him drive her around on personal business and even ordered him to clean her house, Chinese-language newspapers reported. Lo denied the accusations, saying that she sometimes asked the security guard to do favors for her, but they were neither illegal nor abuse of her position.
Control Yuan member Ku Den-mei (古登美) said that investigations into the matter had uncovered additional instances of misuse of state resources. According to Ku, the president's son Chen Chih-chung (陳致中) and son-in-law Chao Chien-ming (趙建銘) borrowed the National Security Council's vehicles for personal use.
In related news, the Control Yuan yesterday issued a correction order to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for negligence over the case of Taiwan's representative office in the UK illegally issuing legal documents to fugitive murderer Andrew Wang's (汪傳浦) wife. The Control Yuan pointed out that the ministry itself was negligent concerning consular affairs and did not improve consul-ar affairs mechanisms as needed.
As a consequence, the Control Yuan said, similar mistakes that violated the law kept happening and damaged the government's image.
additional reporting by Debby Wu
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