The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is scheduled to propose measures to deal with its stolen assets by next Wednesday, a KMT official said yesterday.
“The guiding principle is that the KMT will carry out reform and transform itself. We must propose practical measures to deal with the assets,” KMT spokesman Lee Chien-jung (李建榮) told reporters. “We are scheduled to report the measures during the party’s Central Standing Committee meeting on December 30.”
Lee made the remark after KMT Secretary-General King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) said on Monday that he would consider different opinions and handle the party’s stolen assets in an “appropriate” manner.
‘SOLUTION’
King will assist KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) in solving the asset issue, since Ma vowed to present a “solution” to the issue by the end of this month.
The KMT started unloading its illicit assets in 2005, selling the building housing the Institute on Policy Research and Development for NT$4.3 billion (US$133.6 million) and the China Television Co, the Broadcasting Corp of China and the Central Motion Picture Co for NT$9.3 billion.
Ma promised to clear up the asset issue when he was elected chairman again this fall.
However, Wang Wen-hsieh (王文燮), director of the KMT’s Huang Fuhsing veterans branch, has voiced opposition to King’s plan, saying he did not support donating the rest of the assets to charity.
DONATIONS
Wang said part of the assets came from the party’s membership fees and member donations.
In response, King promised during a campaign event in Taitung to take different opinions into consideration, adding that the party would finalize its plan by the end of this year.
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