The KMT yesterday guardedly welcomed the ongoing probe into alleged financial irregularities by its former treasurer, Liu Tai-ying (
"Whatever Liu did as head of KMT Business Management Committee is in the past," KMT Secretary-General Lin Fong-cheng (
Prosecutors summoned Liu, now chairman of China Development Financial Holdings Corp, for questioning on Wednesday morning over his reported mishandling of bank loans worth billions of Taiwan dollars. He was released yesterday morning.
The snowballing scandal erupted in September when Su Hui-chen (
The businesswoman took her case to law-enforcement officers after Liu allegedly failed to make good on his promise.
Once the most powerful money broker in Taiwan, Liu has denied any involvement in the scam, although prosecutors are holding two close aides, Lee Ming-che (李明哲) and Hsieh Sheng-fu (謝深富), in custody.
Liu, 66, was also suspected of lining his own pockets by approving questionable loans to several financially shaky companies when he oversaw KMT business affairs between 1995 and 1998.
Investigations showed the party lost all its investment of NT$939 million in the Zanadau project, a multi-purpose giant shopping mall in Kaohsiung County.
KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) declined to comment on the investigation, but a party lawmaker urged authorities not to spare any suspects.
Lee Chun-chia (
"I will go ahead and disclose these materials on Monday if the Ministry of Justice keeps passing over DPP officials," he said.
Lee has accused Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien (
The rezoning, which was completed relatively quickly, raised the value of the land by NT$4.7 billion, the lawmaker said. He insisted that since the power transfer, Liu has cut his ties to the KMT and befriended the ruling DPP instead.
Yu's mother, Yu-chen Yueh-ying (
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