A pro-independence group and the former owner of a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) property yesterday urged the KMT to return land and other stolen assets to the government.
Accompanied by the New Taiwan Party and the Taiwan Tax-payers Association, Yeh Sung-jen (
"The KMT forced my father to sign the contract at gunpoint and only paid one-tenth of the market value," Yeh said in front of the KMT headquarters, accusing former KMT authorities of acquiring the land by illegal means in 1962 to build a party institute.
Yeh negotiated with the party to sell the land for NT$1.6 million, but the KMT forced his family to sell the land for less than NT$40,000.
Yeh filed a lawsuit against the KMT and Yuan Li Construction Corp for acquiring the land illegally.
The KMT did not respond to the group's allegations.
The construction company, however, published accusations in advertisements last year, saying that the KMT had cheated the company into buying the land. The land is zoned for government use and the Taipei City government has been unable to rezone the property for residential use.
Before visiting the KMT, the group also paid a visit to the construction company, as Yeh's lawyer Chen Da-cheng (陳達成) called on the company to join them to pressure the KMT into canceling the deal and ask for its money back.
"The company should condemn KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
The group visited the Taipei City Council later to send out a petition to city councilors urging Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) not to approve the rezoning.
Receiving the petition, DPP Taipei City Councilor Yen Sheng-kuan (顏聖冠) said that because many of the KMT's assets were in Taipei City, she would watch the KMT closely and prevent it from selling off all of its stolen assets.
During his term as Taipei mayor, Ma undertook to help expand the property of the Taipei Municipal Yongjiang Elementary School by donating some adjacent land in return for the rezoning of the property.
But Hau said last week that the rezoning was the responsibility of the urban planning committee.
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