Committee to decide fate of KMT properties

COMPENSATION NEEDED? The assets committee said in one case, the KMT overstayed the lease and then bought the land under the names of Hsu Li-te and Wu Shui-yun

Taipei Times
Date: Feb 11, 2020
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee is to hold a hearing on Tuesday next week to

determine whether three properties under the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) name should be considered ill-gotten assets.

The buildings on one property once housed the KMT’s former cultural affairs department. The Housheng building, the original headquarters of the party’s Department of Productive Enterprise, and the Chongsheng building, which used to house the party’s Taipei chapter headquarters, are on the other two properties.

The committee said that it wished to clarify whether the properties were obtained by the KMT in contravention of the bounds of a political party, or other democratic or legal principles.

If the properties — which have already been sold — were ill-gotten, it wanted to know whether the state should demand that the KMT pay it for them and how such compensation should be calculated, the committee added.    [FULL  STORY]