Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative candidate Justin Wu (吳崢) and political commentator Lee Zheng-hao (李正皓) yesterday filed suit against Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Ma Wen-chun (馬文君), accusing her of treason for allegedly leaking classified defense material related to Taiwan’s submarine program.
Wu and Wang filed the suit at the High Prosecutors’ Office in Taipei, accompanied by attorney Kuang Bo-teng (匡伯騰).
Ma should be investigated under Item 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code, they said.
Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times
The item states that “any person disclosing or delivering to a foreign state or to its agent a document, plan, information, or another thing specified in the preceding paragraph shall be sentenced to imprisonment not less than three years but not more than ten years.”
Lee accused Ma and her aides of compiling more than 3,000 files and voice recordings relating to the Indigenous Defense Submarine program and passing them on to the Korean Mission in Taipei.
Ma confirmed in a recent public post that the materials were mailed to the mission in January last year.
She said she also mailed them to the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau, in an attempt to prove her accusations against retired navy captain Kuo Hsi (郭璽).
Kuo was a consultant for the submarine program, and had business links with foreign contractors
“In January 2022, all these files and recordings were not made public... but Ma provided these to South Korean officials, leading to six SI Innotec technicians who got arrested when they returned home,” Lee said.
If Ma and her aides had an issue with Kuo, she could have asked the judiciary to handle the investigation, as it can contact Interpol, Lee said, adding that Ma should not have reported the allegations directly to South Korean officials.
Wu said that as Ma sits on the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee she has access and review of all the core technology and top secrets relating to Taiwan’s Indigenous Defense Submarine program.
Ma said that “the case is now under judicial investigation, and the answer will be clear soon.”
“If needed, I will file a lawsuit against Lee and Wu for making false accusations,” she said.
“Lee and Wu have filed their case, but [should] sue many other people, because from the materials I provided, there are other men who contravened the treason law,” she said.
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