INCOMPLETE DATA:Wu cited California government data as evidence he was not involved in founding a firm, but additional information identified him as a manager
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 25, 2018
By: Sean Lin and Ann Maxon / Staff reporters
Newly inaugurated Minister of Education Wu Maw-kuen (吳茂昆) must disprove an
Minister of Education Wu Maw-kuen talks to reporters in Taipei yesterday after facing accusations of misconduct when he was president of National Dong Hwa University. Photo: Cheng Shu-ting, Taipei Times
allegation that he breached regulations by founding a company in the US to apply for biotech patents while serving as National Dong Hwa University’s president in an attempt to profit from the school’s intellectual property, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus said yesterday.
During a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee on Monday, Wu sought to disavow his alleged involvement in Spiranthes Biotech, which he allegedly established in August 2015, when he was president of the university, KMT Legislator Ko Chih-en (柯志恩) told a news conference in Taipei.
Wu denied founding the company and presented information from the California state government’s Web site on registered businesses, which listed James Ouyang (歐陽彥堂) as the firm’s owner, Ko said.
However, Wu only disclosed half of the information from the Web site, she said.
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