CROSSING A LINE:A source said one of the demands had already been rejected and the others were not raised during three-party talks that took place last month
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 01, 2017
By: Yang Chun-hui and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Demands by the National Women’s League that the government halt all investigations
Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee chairman Wellington Koo adjusts his coat in an undated photograph in Taipei. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
into its assets and affiliated organizations are its “unilateral opinions and wishes” that have already been rejected or are unlikely to be agreed to, an Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee member said yesterday.
The push-back by the league has also “crossed the committee’s red line,” the source said.
On Monday last week, the league filed a list of demands following a joint statement that outlined an agreement reached during negotiations between the committee, the Ministry of the Interior and the league. That statement — dubbed the ministry’s “three principles” — was supposed to provide a roadmap to resolve the league’s alleged mishandling of taxpayer-funded money given to the league between 1955 and 1989.
The statement said the league was to “donate” NT$31.2 billion (US$1.03 billion) of its assets to the government; “disband” by merging with a subsidiary, the Social Welfare Foundation; and allow public oversight of the Social Welfare Foundation and its two other subsidiaries, the Foundation for the Hearing Impaired and Hua Hsing Children’s Home. [FULL STORY]
