The Taichung City Government has claimed that it received only NT$15 million of an alleged NT$75 million donation from the social affairs bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government, Chinese-language media reported yesterday.
Following the 921 earthquake last year, the Taichung City Government received donations from a broad array of sources, the report said, citing a city government financial brief.
Kaohsiung City Councilor Chu Hui-lan (
According to Chu, the Taichung City report should have registered three separate donations -- two of NT$30 million and another of NT$15 million for a total of NT$75 million.
However, Taichung Mayor Chang Wen-ying (
When questioned about the irregularities, Kaohsiung Deputy Mayor Chen rechecked the documents and discovered a check in the amount of NT$15 million designated for "921 spiritual and artistic reconstruction."
By April of this year, that donation had been nearly exhausted, Chen said, and only NT$180,000 remained.
Chen explained that this was a government-to-government donation and was therefore not recorded in the report.
The Kaohsiung Deputy Mayor also explained that the NT$60 million difference between the two figures was the result of faulty accounting.
NT$30 million of the donation was listed elsewhere in the report under the heading "general donation," and the other NT$30 million had not been recorded as a result of "negligence," Chen said.
There was no word of any further investigation into the irregularities.
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