Deputy Minister of Justice Lee Chin-yung (
"We have interviewed seven staff at the Kaoshiung bureau of the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office, including prosecutor Lo Chien-hsun (羅建勛), and we are sure the document was not leaked by the bureau or Lo," Lee told a press conference yesterday evening.
Lee made the remarks in response to a call by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus on Thursday urging the ministry to identify the person who leaked the document to Next Magazine. The document was issued by the Kaohsiung bureau of the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office's to the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
The magazine on Wednesday published a copy of what it said was an official document signed by Kaohsiung Prosecutor Lo that had been sent from the Kaohsiung bureau to the Investigation Bureau on April 3.
The magazine said Lo believed former premier Frank Hseih (謝長廷), who is vying for the DPP's nomination for next year's presidential election, should be indicted on corruption charges on suspicion of accepting illegal donations from a Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp (KRTC) board member and others during his term as mayor of Kaohsiung.
Hsieh became a target in investigations into the KRTC bidding scandal in March last year. The magazine said Lo -- who was in charge of investigations into the 2002 KRTC scandal -- believes Hsieh violated the Statute for the Punishment of Corruption (
The Kaohsiung bureau confirmed on Wednesday that the document was genuine, but said it was sent by Lo himself and that the "terminology" in the document was "flawed."
Lee yesterday said seven employees at the ministry's Investigation Bureau were also interviewed and were not suspected of leaking the document.
Lee said Taipei prosecutors had also questioned two journalists from Next Magazine. One of them, Hsieh Zhong-liang (
The ministry has not identified who disclosed the document, but will continue its investigation into the leak, Lee said.
Meanwhile, Lo yesterday told reporters that he had not leaked the prosecutorial document to the magazine, adding that he was willing to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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