Taipei Times
Date: Sep 06, 2018
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) was yesterday
Then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Lee Ching-hua speaks at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on April 22, 2009. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
indicted on corruption charges for allegedly embezzling NT$5.23 million (US$169,772 at the current exchange rate) in government funds.
Evidence collected in an investigation pointed to Lee having pocketed government money earmarked for his office assistants’ salaries while he served as a lawmaker from 2007 to 2016, the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office said.
Lee was charged with contravening provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例), as well as obtaining property by fraud through abuse of a public functionary’s authority and making false entries in a public document under the Criminal Code.
Lee first served as a KMT lawmaker from 1992 until 1996, when he joined the New Party. He later switched to the People First Party (PFP), before returning to the KMT in 2005. He then served as a KMT legislator until he failed to secure a seat in the 2016 legislative elections. [FULL STORY]
