PRESIDENTIAL PRECEDENT: One legislator said that if there is evidence of wrongdoing, Ma should be immediately detained, as happened to former president Chen Shui-bian
Taipei Times
Date Dec 15, 2017
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Lawmakers and judicial officials yesterday responded to charges made by former
Former president Ma Ying-jeou, center, yesterday attends a forum on education in Taipei held by the Global Views Educational Foundation. Photo: CNA
president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who has accused prosecutors of leaking information related to an ongoing case in which he is involved, saying that Ma is trying to interfere with the judicial process and shift the public’s focus away from an investigation into financial irregularities in the sales of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) assets.
“If prosecutors have evidence of wrongdoing, they should summon Ma for questioning and detain him,” Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ding-yu (王定宇) said.
“This key recording was recovered from digital files that were deleted, leading to suspicions of tampering and destruction of evidence,” he said, referring to media reports of prosecutors obtaining a recording that allegedly implicates Ma in financial irregularities arising from the sale of KMT-controlled media companies and other assets more than a decade ago. [FULL STORY]
