LOOKING SOUTH:James Huang said his meeting with Chen Ching-nan had been about cooperation with Indonesian shipbuilders and developers, not the minesweeper project
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 17, 2017
By: Su Yung-yao, Sean Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Two government officials yesterday said they met Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co (慶富造船)
Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co president Chen Ching-nan yesterday reports to a police station in Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen District to fulfill his bail conditions. His son, Chen Wei-chih, and wife, Lu Chao-hsia, have also been required to report to the police station daily.
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president Chen Ching-nan (陳慶男) and his son, Chen Wei-chih (陳偉志), last year, but they did not press the navy to expedite a payment of NT$2.4 billion (US$79.58 million) for a minesweeper project.
The visit by Chen Ching-nan and Chen Wei-chih to then-New Southbound Policy Office director James Huang (黃志芳) and Presidential Office Third Bureau Director David Lee (李南陽) at the Presidential Office on Sept. 23 last year was the last of six visits the two made to the office since 2010.
The first five meetings occurred during former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration, including a meeting on Dec. 9, 2015, between Chen Ching-nan and then-Presidential Office deputy secretary-general Hsiung Kuang-hua (熊光華).
The other four visits were made when the office was receiving foreign dignitaries, records showed.
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