PFP lawmakers yesterday requested that the Department of Taxation audit the accounts belonging to relatives of former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) to see if members of his family members cheated on their taxes.
The lawmakers made the request after the investigation bureau reported on Tuesday that the money in the accounts at issue have nothing to do with national funds.
PFP lawmakers have continued to focus on the accounts, shifting their accusations to tax evasion.
They said the report released by the investigation bureau shows that five sums of money, with a combined value of more than NT$60 million, were found to have been transferred into the accounts of Annie Lee (李安妮) and Chang Kwei-fen (張桂芬) in June 1997.
Annie Lee is the daughter of the ex-president. Chang Kwei-fen is the sister of Lee's daughter-in-law Chang Yue-yun (
"We wonder why Lee and his relatives had so much money when Lee had said neither he nor his family had made big investments," said PFP lawmaker Sun Ta-chien (
Last week, PFP lawmaker Liu Wen-hsiung (
He said large sums of money were wired from the Farmers' Bank of China (
But it was later found that some of Liu's accusations were inaccurate, such as the amount of transferred money and the date the transfers allegedly took place.
It was also found that the money was not transferred from the Farmers' Bank of China.
In addition, the report issued by the investigation bureau also found that the money in question did not come from NSB funds.
Sources within the PFP said that PFP Chairman James Soong (
The TSU demanded that the PFP apologize for the accusations after the investigation bureau found that Lee and his relatives were innocent.
They said that "what the PFP has done is no less than try to confiscate the property of Lee and his relatives and exterminate their lives."
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