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Taipei prosecutors find no secret agenda in ‘Dreamers’


Former Council for Cultural Affairs minister Emile Sheng talks to reporters yesterday after the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said it had found no evidence of corruption in relation to the musical “Dreamers” performed in October last year. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday closed its investigation into the bidding process of the centennial musical Dreamers (夢想家), and said that no irregularities were involved.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) filed lawsuits in November last year against President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), then-premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and former Council for Cultural Affairs minister Emile Sheng (盛治仁), accusing them of allowing certain performance companies and individuals to profit from staging the musical to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China.

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Control Yuan votes 6-4 to impeach Su Jia-chyuan


A representative of the Control Yuan gives a presentation in Taipei yesterday about a farmhouse owned by former Pingtung County commissioner Su Jia-chyuan, as the Control Yuan announced its resolution to impeach Su.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

The Control Yuan yesterday voted 6-4 to impeach former Council of Agriculture (COA) chairman Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全) for illegally constructing a luxury farmhouse on agricultural land without engaging in any agriculture.

“Su used his administrative privileges during his terms as Pingtung County commissioner, minister of the interior and COA chairman to build a farmhouse on an agricultural land as a mansion for his own use. None of the equipment or the remaining land were found to be used for agriculture, which constitutes a violation of the Agricultural Development Act (農業發展條例),” the Control Yuan told a press conference following a meeting to discuss the case.

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Newsflash

The government should not have let the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) lead an administrative investigation into Mega International Commercial Bank’s violation of US rules against money laundering, New Power Party Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said.

People have been mostly concerned with the suspected money-laundering activities, which have been put under judicial investigation, Huang said in a radio interview yesterday.