The Taiwan High Court Prosecu-tors' Office confirmed yesterday that it had questioned Minister without Portfolio Chang Yu-hui (張有惠) last Friday regarding his alleged involvement in the snowballing Jin-Wen Group (景文集團) scandal.
Chang released a statement yesterday evening denying any involvement in the scandal.
He denied that he had approved the unlawful NT$640 million loan to the Yu Chuan (
Chang also denied the accusation that his son had been given a villa in the Ta Hsueh Shih Hsiang (
Chinese-language media reported yesterday that Jin-Wen had been paying for the villa for Chang's son, Chang Chieh-kai (
The villa was sold by Lin Tsung-sung (
A former assistant manager and incumbent branch manager of the Central Trust of China, Chang Cheng-hung (
Chang Yu-hui remains free after last Friday's interview. Prosecutors said they do not rule out questioning Chang again.
The construction of the Ta Hsueh Shih Hsiang villa community in Hsintien City, Taipei County, also figures in the scandal. Prosecutors found that the Jin-Wen Group built the houses on land that was supposed to have been used for the expansion of the Jin-Wen Institute's campus.
Reports said in the mid-1980s, the Jin-Wen Group applied to use a 22-hectare plot near the school for a campus expansion, but it later used 12 hectares of the land to build the homes.
Prosecutors are investigating whether several government departments, including the Ministry of Education, Taiwan Provincial Government and the Taipei County Government, collaborated with Jin-Wen and unlawfully allowed the construction of the villas.
The fact that the villas are home to many high-ranking education officials has also raised media speculation as to whether they have any connection with the Jin-Wen Group and Chang Wan-li.
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