NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES?The actions of the corps, such as receiving NT$60m more for a youth center than it was budgeted, need to be investigated, the committee said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 30, 2016
By: Yang Chun-hui, Lin Liang-sheng and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee plans to investigate the China Youth
A building owned by the China Youth Corps located on No. 30, Zhongshan N Rd, Sect 1 in Taipei and with an estimated market value of NT$450 million is pictured on Aug. 15. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
Corps, with a hearing scheduled for February next year.
The committee said it is to examine the history of the corps’ establishment, the composition of its personnel and the source of its assets to judge whether the organization is affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
The corps was mentioned in the party’s “Rules on General Promotion of Making Youth Groups Wholesome and Enabling their Coordination with the Party’s Basic Organizations” (健全各種青年團體與黨的基層組織配合推行總動員工作實施辦法) in Article 4 and Article 7, the committee said.
Article 4 says: “The China Youth Corps is the party’s peripheral organization to lead all activities for our party’s youths,” while Article 7 states: “The staff of the Corps should, as much as possible, be comprised of talented party members in order to reinforce the party’s leadership.” [FULL STORY]
