INFLUENCE PEDDLING?Attorney Lin Fu-kuei said that the former president could be involved in the Farglory case, and the Cabinet is investigating his ties to Ching Fu
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 02, 2017
By: Jason Pan and Chen Wei-han / Staff reporters
A legal expert yesterday demanded that the judiciary fully investigate alleged influence
Minister of National Defense Feng Shih-kuan talks to reporters at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday before reporting to a task force reviewing procurement of minesweepers from Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co. Photo: CNA
peddling, financial improprieties and profiteering by former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) in connection with the Taipei Dome project and a Ministry of National Defense initiative to domestically produce warships.
Farglory Group (遠雄集團) was originally required to pay a performance bond of NT$3.042 billion (US$100.8 million at the current exchange rate) to build the Taipei Dome.
Then-Taipei Department of Finance commissioner Lee Sush-der (李述德), who was on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Taipei District Court, was in charge of negotiating the contract with Farglory.
However, “after Ma held several secret meetings with Farglory founder Chao Teng-hsiung (趙藤雄), it was decided that the performance bond was to be waived,” attorney Lin Fu-kuei (林富貴) said. “The decision was not made in an open meeting, nor were experts and other officials consulted.” [FULL STORY]