Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday urged China to deport Rebar Asia Pacific Group (力霸亞太企業集團) chairman Wang You-theng (王又曾).
"Many Taiwanese white-collar criminals escape to China. Some of them even make donations to local organizations in China," Su said.
"What they have done really irritates Taiwanese people. I hereby urge the Chinese government to help send them back to Taiwan," he said.
In a separate setting, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday said that the party would be willing to make contact "via certain channels" with Chinese authorities to ask that Wang be sent back to Taiwan.
He also called on the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) not to shift blame onto the KMT because Wang was a party member, at one point serving in the party's central standing committee.
"The DPP has been the ruling party for seven years, and established the Financial Supervisory Commission. Determining whether or not the bank had problems is the responsibility of the DPP," Ma said while touring Yunlin County.
Earlier in the day, DPP officials had urged Ma to help push China to repatriate Taiwanese criminals to face justice.
A spokesman for the DPP, Super Meng (孟義超), and China affairs department director Lai I-chung (賴怡忠) asked Ma to negotiate with China.
Mung said that many former KMT officials had committed crimes in Taiwan and had fled to China.
Meanwhile, Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Lai Shin-yuan (
Because China is a party to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and since the Chinese government has expressed its determination to crack down on graft, Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) should assist Taiwan in repatriating Wang, Lai said.
"Since the Kinmen Agreement was signed, the government has sent at least 700 Chinese suspects in Taiwan back to China," Lai said.
In September 1990, Red Cross organizations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait signed the first cross-strait agreement between non-official bodies -- the Kinmen Agreement -- which detailed a process for the return of large numbers of illegal immigrants from China.
"China shouldn't let itself become a haven in which Taiwanese criminals can seek asylum," Lai said.
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