CHING FU CASE:The Chinese Nationalist Party’s legislative caucus said the Presidential Office had contradicted its own statements about visits by the shipbuilder’s president
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 17, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday accused the Presidential Office
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih, left, yesterday in Taipei holds up a picture showing Ching Fu president Chen Ching-nan speaking to President Tsai Ing-wen during a marine drill in Keelung in June. Photo courtesy of Wu Den-yih
of issuing contradictory statements about its visitor records and said the Democratoc Progressive Party (DPP) is running a smear campaign against the KMT in connection with a scandal at state-owned banks implicating Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co.
The Presidential Office on Wednesday told a “blatant lie” when it said that there were no records of Ching Fu president Chen Ching-nan (陳慶男) or his son, Ching Fu vice president Chen Wei-chih (陳偉志), visiting office officials, only to contradict itself later that day, the caucus said.
The caucus also cast doubt on back-to-back statements by the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office issued on Wednesday night, which it said echoed the Presidential Office’s statements.
After the Presidential Office on Wednesday morning said that it could not find any visitor records for Chen Ching-nan or his son, the prosecutors’ office issued a statement saying that Chen Wei-chih “claimed to have visited the Presidential Office to gain the trust of the Kaohsiung Marine Bureau,” which allegedly helped the shipbuilder secure land in Kaohsiung’s Singda Harbor. [FULL STORY]
