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Tsai, Su blast KMT-led
‘media show’ over prosecutions
By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its former chairperson Tsai Ing-wen
(蔡英文) yesterday questioned prosecutors and the Control Yuan over their handling
of a fresh round of lawsuits probing the Yu Chang Biologics Co (宇昌生技股份有限公司)
case.
Speaking through her office yesterday, Tsai urged the Supreme Prosecutors’
Office Special Investigation Division (SID) to approach the lawsuits with the
same standard with which it had handled other cases and said it should not
conduct “selective investigations.”
Tsai, who was accused of illegal involvement in the formation of Yu Chang while
serving as vice premier in 2007, filed a lawsuit to the SID on Monday against
Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and the former Council for Economic Planning and
Development minister Christina Liu (劉憶如) after the Taipei District Court cleared
her of any wrongdoing.
The SID handed the case to the Taipei Prosecutors’ Office on Thursday, saying
the case was out of its jurisdiction.The case had been passed to the SID because
it was the division’s “unavoidable obligation” to launch investigations into the
possible abuse of state apparatus for unfair election campaigning by the
president or vice president, the former DPP presidential candidate said.
The SID thoughtlessly handed the case back to the Taipei District Prosecutors’
Office despite kowing that the office had closed the case, she added.
Meanwhile, DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday that he would not
attend an interview requested by the Control Yuan, which said it would continue
with an administrative investigation into the Yu Chang case despite Tsai having
been cleared of any criminality.
Su, who was summoned because he was premier in 2007, said the Control Yuan had
informed him that the interview would be “confidential,” but he said it was
being turned into a “media show,” with Control Yuan members repeatedly leaking
information to the media.
Su “has decided not to appear at the show and could not care less if his absence
led to impeachment or a censure,” DPP spokesperson Wang Ming-shen (王閔生) quoted
Su as saying. The final results of the investigation have still not been
announced eight months later and the Control Yuan should have held government
officials who were involved in the mudslinging case accountable to save its
“fading credibility,” Wang also quoted Su as saying.
According to SID spokesperson Chen Hung-ta (陳宏達), the SID is in charge of
investigating corruption cases involving officials above Cabinet level, and does
not handle cases related to the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and
Recall Act (總統副總統選舉罷免法).
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