The Control Yuan yesterday impeached a former staff member of the Presidential Office for making a copy of documents — some of which were confidential — and having a former legislative assistant fax some of them to China.
Control Yuan member Hung Chao-nan (洪昭男) said Wang Jen-bin (王仁炳) was impeached by a vote of 11 to 2 and referred to the Judicial Yuan’s Commission on the Disciplinary Sanctions of Functionaries for further punishment.
SUSPENDED
Wang was suspended from his position after he was caught -copying various documents.
Last year Wang was given a sentence of three years in prison and was deprived of his civil rights for two years by the Taipei District Court, but he was not found guilty of charges related to the documents leaked to China because it was determined that they were not classified.
SERIAL COPIER
Hung said Wang copied confidential documents from 2004 to 2008 when he served former Presidential Office deputy -secretary--generals Chen Che-nan (陳哲男), Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) and Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) under the Democratic Progressive Party government.
In Wang’s office and residence, prosecutors found 261 documents that had not been archived. Six of those were confidential, including notes of a meeting between former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and a US official.
ACT VIOLATIONS
The impeachment was based on violations of the Classified National Security Information Protection Act (國家機密保護法), the National Archives Act (國家檔案法) and the Decree Governing the Transfer of Documents of Civil Servants (公務人員交代條例), Hung said.
Control Yuan member Ger Yeong-kuang (葛永光) said he hoped the impeachment would serve as a warning to civil servants.
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