HAMSTRUNG:The corps said the party assets committee hearing should be invalid, as it was not given a legally required timeframe to prepare to answer the committee’s report
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 25, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
The China Youth Corps yesterday denied an alleged connection with the Chinese
China Youth Corps research and development committee deputy director Cheng Fei-wen, left, and lawyer Liu Chang-ping talk to reporters outside a hearing by the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
Nationalist Party (KMT), saying at a hearing that the allegation was based on prejudice by the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee.
The hearing was the second by the committee aimed at establishing whether the organization was controlled by the KMT or spun off from the party through questionable sales or transfers — conditions that could prompt the committee to recognize it as an organization founded with ill-gotten party assets.
The committee on Tuesday last week released a report suggesting that the corps has close links to the KMT, as the party had control over the organization’s personnel, finances and management, with former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) directing it for 21 years before being succeeded by other KMT heavyweights.
The organization denied being affiliated with the KMT, saying it was a government agency before becoming an independent nonprofit foundation. [FULL STORY]
