Control Yuan Secretary-General Tu Shan-liang (杜善良) yesterday said that 170 suspicious contributions required further investigation to determine their legality.
But the legality of the contributions could not be investigated until new Control Yuan members were inaugurated, Tu said.
Although President Chen Shui-bian (
The tenure of the previous Control Yuan expired on Jan. 31.
Tu also said that probes into suspicious political contributions have encountered three difficulties -- insufficient donor awareness of the Political Contributions Law (
The Control Yuan's secretariat has come up with a package of proposals for revising the contributions law in future, Tu said.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) received NT$62.82 million (US$2 million) in political contributions ahead of last year's legislative elections, making him the top recipient, a Control Yuan report said.
Candidates for last December's legislative elections had to apply to the Control Yuan, the nation's supreme watchdog body, to open special accounts for receiving political donations prior to the poll.
A Control Yuan report released yesterday said that 345 candidates were eligible to open the special accounts, accounting for 89 percent of all candidates.
He was followed by Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Lo Chih-ming (
Other top 10 recipients included DPP Legislator Julian Kuo (
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