A staff member and cleaning company from a Taipei hospital yesterday accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of stealing ownership of the hospital, forcing them out and owing them money.
According to a staff member from the Chunghua Hospital, who was wearing sunglasses and preferred not to be named, her job came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a medical consultancy funded by the KMT used illegal means to take over the management of the hospital.
"I remember it was a Saturday and they sent a group of security guards to the hospital to tell us that it was in financial trouble," she said. "The following Monday, the consulting company sent us a letter, telling us to take paid leave until further notice." She did not get paid for the vacation, but she did hear from the company. She received a dismissal letter.
"But my employer is Doctor Jao Ke-ji (
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The KMT raked in NT$480 million for the roughly 1,000-ping site located on Ta-an Road when it sold it to a property development company. While the litigation between the Jao family and the KMT is still in process, the building has been reduced to rubble.
Producing a copy of the letter sent by the city's Bureau of Health in August, Jao Jin-yi (
"But I'd very much like to know how they expect my father to reopen the hospital when it no longer exists," he said.
Jao Jin-yi came forward to disclose how the KMT had "filched" his father's hospital on Monday.
He claimed that a KMT-affiliated venture capital company first expressed its wish to "manage" the hospital jointly with the co-owners in March 1999.
However, after obtaining two thirds of the hospital's shares, the company then used a legal loophole to force through the acquisition of all the remaining shares.
It then used a forged accord it claimed was signed by Jao Ke-ji to obtain the management rights to the hospital. The agreement said that Jao Ke-ji would be fined NT$50 million if he refused to hand over ownership of the hospital.
This accord was subsequently dismissed by the Taipei High Court as a forgery.
The KMT dismissed the accusations as another Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) election gimmick aimed at deflecting public attention from government scandals.
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