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Man confesses to firing shots at Alex Tsai's office

Taipei police yesterday arrested a man who admitted firing shots outside Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Lawmaker Alex Tsai's (蔡正元) office in Nangang (南港), Taipei, in July.

Taipei police said the suspect, Lin Yan-tsung (林宴聰),was arrested in Taichung early yesterday morning.

The incident in question took place on July 28, when a shooter fired shots at the door of Tsai's office. No one was injured, but police suspect the shots were intended as a warning to Tsai.

Police said Lin had admitted that he committed the crime in exchange for NT$100,000. Lin claimed not to know who he was acting for, police said.

Police said the incident may have been related to a Central Motion Pictures Corp (CMPC, 中影公司) shareholding dispute.

Lin told police that he had laid low in Kaoshiung and Taichung after the shooting, spending nights in his girlfriend's car or in mountainous areas.

The Taipei District Court ordered Lin detained.

Tsai had said someone fired a gun in the air outside his office several days before the July 28 incident. He also claimed the shootings were related to the CMPC dispute. He said he had been informed that certain parties in the dispute had sought the assistance of gangsters.

Former CMPC vice president Chuang Wan-chun (莊婉均) has accused Tsai of stealing her shares in the corporation.

In related news, a smoke bomb was thrown into KMT Legislator Wu Chih-yang's (吳志揚) office in Jhongli (中壢), Taoyuan County, yesterday morning.

Wu told reporters that the smoke bomb had not gone off and said he suspected political radicals were behind the incident.

He said that he had not received any warning before the incident and did not think it was related to the upcoming legislator elections.
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