Hsieh denies DPP lawmaker interceded on son’s behalf
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/01/06
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Envoy to Japan and former Premier Frank Hsieh said his son Hsieh Wei-chou
Envoy to Japan Frank Hsieh. (By Central News Agency)
often played with the legal sports lotto, but his wife’s sudden departure to Taiwan was not to pay back their son’s debts, but to assist their daughter who fell into coma after an accident.
Media reports said last month that the younger Hsieh, who won election to the Taipei City Council for the Democratic Progressive Party in 2014, was NT$10 million (US$313,000) in debt due to a supposed addiction to the sports lottery. His mother, Yu Fang-chih, had returned from her husband’s side in Japan to help him clear the debts, reports said at the time.
In a Facebook post Friday, Frank Hsieh acknowledged that the “present situation” was the result of his son’s liking for the sports lottery. Hsieh Wei-chou had denied the high amount of the debt and defended his buying of lottery tickets as completely legal.
As a public person, Hsieh Wei-chou should undergo scrutiny and show self-discipline, but he didn’t need to clarify or defend his problems, Frank Hsieh wrote. [FULL STORY]
