Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (段宜康) yesterday raised further questions regarding Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang’s (王如玄) real-estate transactions, saying that her husband, Judicial Yuan Department of Government Ethics Director Huang Tung-hsun (黃東焄), owns or owned at least 19 military housing units.
Based on property declarations made by Wang and Huang from 1993 to this year, the couple has been involved in 18 military housing unit transactions and “one unit in Shi Mao Hsin Cheng (世貿新城) [in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義)] that the couple apparently did not declare. They have made at least 19 transactions for the purpose of investment over the past 20 years,” Tuan said at a news conference at the legislature yesterday.
As the law prohibits the sale of military housing units within a five-year period after acquisition, Tuan accused Wang of dodging the law by making transactions through debt assumption, in which the buyer makes a payment in cash or in a promissory note in exchange for future ownership of the property after the waiting period.
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“Between 1995 and 2003, a number of people, surnamed Ko (柯), Lee (李), Ku (顧), Lien (連), Yu (余), Pang (龐), Ho (賀), Chiang Wang (江王) and Chiang (江), as well as Wang’s mother, Wang Hung Chuan-tai (王洪絹代), were involved in debt assumption transactions for 10 military housing units,” Tuan said.
“During that period, there were no additions to the list of properties owned by Jennifer Wang and her husband, meaning that these housing units were bought and sold immediately,” Tuan said.
There were also eight similar transactions of military housing units from 2003 to this year, including one unit that Jennifer Wang sold in 2003 without declaring it, Tuan added.
“This demonstrates how Jennifer Wang regularly speculates on real estate,” he said.
DPP caucus whip Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) panned Jennifer Wang as unethical, intentionally hiding her real-estate transactions through legal loopholes.
“I wonder if [KMT presidential candidate] Eric Chu (朱立倫) really wants this kind of person to be his running mate, and, if so, is he ready to shoulder the consequences of that?” Tsai asked.
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