Former president Ma Ying-jeou talks to reporters at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Wednesday after he was summoned for questioning in a probe into the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) sale of party assets when he served as party chairman.  Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

POLITICKING? The KMT accused the DPP of using the judiciary to unfairly target its officials and insisted that its disposal of party assets would withstand scrutiny

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 01, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday lashed out at prosecutors for questioning former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and other key officials over an ongoing judicial probe into alleged financial irregularities in the sale of KMT assets a decade ago, when Ma was the party chairman.

“Ma and other party officials were summoned for questioning by prosecutors for 15 hours on Wednesday in relation to their investigation into party asset sales. We suspect the judiciary is being used as a political tool to unfairly target KMT officials,” party spokesman Huang Chien-hao (黃健豪) said in a statement.

The KMT’s sale and disposal of party assets were managed through legal means, which can withstand scrutiny, Huang said, accusing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of interfering in the judicial system, harassing the opposition and protecting its own interests.    [FULL STORY]