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KMT councilor denies pressuring police over tickets

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Li Keng Kuei-fang, right, yesterday complains to Taipei City Councilor Huang Shan-shan after media reports that Li Keng had forced police to rescind some of her traffic tickets. PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Li Keng Kuei-fang (厲耿桂芳) yesterday denied putting pressure on local police to cancel her traffic tickets, saying that she had the tickets revoked through legal means.

She said that about 10 of her tickets dating back to 2005 and totaling NT$22,000 had been canceled, but added that she had paid NT$6,600 for three other tickets.

"As a citizen, I am entitled to file complaints with the transportation agencies, and I filed complaints using the proper legal procedures. The transportation agencies had decided whether the tickets should be canceled," Li Keng said at a Taipei City Council meeting.

Chinese-language newspapers, including the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times' sister newspaper) and China Times, reported that the councilor had negotiated with the city's Department of Transportation earlier this month, asking officials to cancel all of her tickets.

She allegedly shouted at the officials and her assistants when she was told that the tickets, including ones for running red lights, speeding and double parking, were issued in 2005 and would be difficult to cancel.

Li Keng said that she had been serving voters when she drove her car and violated the traffic rules during her office hours. And the tickets were sent to her registered residential address, rather than her current residence, she said, so she did not receive the bills until much later.

Wang Sheng-wei (王聲威), director of the department's complaint center, said the councilor did file her complaints legally, and the center decided the tickets should be canceled.
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