OPEN CASE: Prosecutors are investigating whether Kuan Chung-ming broke the law by teaching in China immediately after leaving an official post, the justice minister said
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 23, 2018
By: Wu Po-hsuan and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA
National Taiwan University (NTU) president-elect Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) yesterday
Deputy Minister of Education Lin Teng-chiao speaks in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
said the Ministry of Education must make a decision on his appointment by the end of the month.
Kuan, who was originally scheduled to take office on Feb. 1, has been embroiled in several scandals since word of his selection by the university’s election committee at the beginning of January.
While he was cleared of initial conflict of interest claims during the selection process and plagiarism complaints, he is now being investigated for potential breaches of the Classified National Security Information Protection Act (國家機密保護法).
“It has been more than two-and-a-half months since NTU’s presidential election committee on Jan. 5 elected me as president and submitted a request to the ministry for my appointment,” Kuan said in a statement, asking the ministry to make a decision about his appointment by the end of the month. [FULL STORY]
