A retired professor has been indicted on charges of fraud and forgery for allegedly using students’ information to receive money related to research projects during his tenure at National Taiwan University (NTU), the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said yesterday.
Huang Liang-hsiung (黃良雄) allegedly obtained millions of dollars in funding for university research projects by fraudulently listing the names of his students and their relatives as research assistants and employees, prosecutors said.
The research projects, which Huang either led or co-led, were commissioned by NTU, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University — formerly National Chiao Tung University before its merger with National Yang-Ming University — and government agencies, prosecutors said.
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Huang allegedly assigned a doctoral student surnamed Chang (張) to obtain personal and bank account information of Huang’s students and aides, who were then fraudulently listed on the projects as research assistants or temporary employees, they said.
Prosecutors said that Huang allegedly asked Chang to contact a person surnamed Chiu (邱) at a private company to issue invoices and quotations that were fraudulently used to claim more than NT$400,000 (US$12,547) in funding for research projects.
Huang made nearly NT$3.82 million from projects commissioned by the universities and government agencies from August 2009 to March 2019, prosecutors said.
Chang, Chiu and the individuals who consented to pose as Huang’s research assistants all confessed to unlawful practices and were granted deferred prosecution, prosecutors said.
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