MACHINATIONS: The DPP government has been trying to convict former president Ma Ying-jeou and his indictment is a political move, KMT Legislator Sufin Siluko said

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 18, 2018
By: Lin Liang-sheng and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) invitation to former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to talk about his indictment at the party’s Central Standing Committee today is not political endorsement, but a move to clarify the issue for KMT members, committee members said yesterday.

The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday last week charged Ma with breach of trust and contraventions of the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法) for his role in the KMT’s disposal of several party assets in 2005 and 2006, including Central Motion Picture Corp (中影), China Television Co (中視), Broadcasting Corp of China (中廣) and the old KMT headquarters building, during his time as party chairman

KMT Legislator and committee member Hsu Shu-hua (許淑華) said that many KMT members knew that the party was at the time under pressure from the amended Broadcasting and Television Act (廣播電視法) to sell the media companies.

While party members recognize the validity of Ma’s handling of the issue, it would be good for Ma to clarify the matter, Hsu said.    [FULL  STORY]