A number of Taiwan's grand justices are billionaires, while several others have seen their family assets increase substantially over the past year, according to disclosure reports filed with the Control Yuan, the nation's top watchdog body.
The Control Yuan report shows that all grand justices have filed their assets disclosure reports for last year, with most doing well.
The report shows that Judicial Yuan President Weng Yueh-sheng (
He was one of the senior government officials who came under fire last year over alleged misuse of special allowance funds set aside for discretionary use. The asset disclosure report shows that Weng continued to deposit his special allowance fund into his bank account last year.
Over last year, Weng's state bond holdings decreased by more than NT$10 million, while his real estate holdings remained unchanged.
According to the report, Grand Justice Tseng You-tien (
Grand Justice Hsu Pi-hu (徐璧湖) also reported an enormous increase in family assets last year. In the 2005 report, Hsu had just NT$738,544 in bank deposits plus NT$102,181 in securities holdings. Last year, his bank deposit swelled to NT$5.67 million and his securities holdings also zoomed to NT$5.36 million.
Grand Justice Lai Ying-jaw (
Meanwhile, Academia Sinica President Wong Chi-huey (翁啟惠) is also a wealthy man, possessing a house and two plots of land in the US in addition to nearly NT$40 million in bank deposits and securities holdings.
Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen (
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