Judicial investigators yesterday searched the office of Taipei City Councilor Lee Fu Chung-wu (李傅中武) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), amid a probe into suspected fraudulent claims of assistant wages.
Taipei City prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau worked together to search Lee Fu’s office and residence, as well as those of other people suspected of corruption.
They gathered evidence and detained seven people for questioning — which included Lee Fu; his wife, Lin Chin-li (林金俐); Lee Fu’s brother-in-law and his spouse; his mother-in-law; and his sister-in-law’s son.
Photo: Tien Yu-hua, Taipei Times
Lee Fu allegedly forged receipts and falsified personnel records to claim more than NT$10 million (US$312,793) in government subsidy funds intended to pay for employee wages, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said.
Preliminary investigations found that some people who were listed as office personnel did not actually work there, they said.
Lee Fu has been in office for four consecutive terms since 2010. He was elected from Taipei’s eighth electorate constituency, which is for mountain indigenous constituents, as his mother is from the Atayal community.
He was a Taipei City police officer before he entered politics, and was previously a member of the KMT’s Central Standing Committee and Disciplinary Committee.
Prosecutors said that Lee Fu listed his relatives as office assistants “in name only” and claimed their monthly wages through fragmented accounting reports and deferred receipts to bypass auditing mechanisms.
Lee Fu is being investigated for allegedly contravening the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例) by using his position to defraud funds or properties, and the Criminal Code for forging documents, as his wife was the only legitimate assistant at the office.
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