Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) campaign office filed a defamation lawsuit yesterday against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) for remarks about Ma's special allowance funds case.
After being cleared of his own mayoral allowance case last week, Hsieh slammed Ma for paying for his dog's physical exam and his daughters' tuition fees with money from his special Taipei mayoral allowance and challenged the Taipei District Court's ruling that found Ma not guilty.
Ma spokesman Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) condemned Hsieh yesterday for making false accusations and argued that Ma had never used fake receipts to file for reimbursement.
PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
"It was the city government staffer, Yu Wen (
Lo said the court had found Ma not guilty and the prosecutors had not indicted Ma over the money spent on his dog and daughters.
"Ma was indicted over the part of the allowance that required no receipts and he did not use his special allowance to pay for his daughters' tuition fees," Lo said.
In response to Hsieh's claim that he had never used fake receipts, Lo said the prosecutors had believed what Hsieh had said without challenging it and condemned the prosecutor for applying double standards in the two cases.
"Hsieh's distortion [of the facts] has damaged Ma's reputation. As a lawyer, Hsieh should not spread rumors and turn his campaign into a smearing center," Lo said, adding that Ma's camp would file a lawsuit against Hsieh to prevent him from making more accusations.
In response to the lawsuit, Hsieh campaign spokesman Chao Tien-lin (
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