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2012 ELECTIONS: Yu
Chang papers altered twice: DPP
‘VICIOUS MOTIVE’: An attachment to the wrongly
dated document the KMT used to discredit DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen was also
tampered with, the DPP says
By Chris Wang / Staff Reporter
Democratic Progressive Party
spokesperson Chen Chi-mai holds up a copy of an official document at a press
conference yesterday, which Council for Economic Planning and Development
Minister Christina Liu and the KMT are suspected of altering to accuse DPP
Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen of wrongdoings in the formation of Yu Chang Biologics
Inc, now known as TaiMed Biologics Co, when Tsai served as vice premier. The
original on the right clearly shows the tag "Attachment No. 3," while it was
erased on the copy on the left.
Photo: Li Hsin-fang, Taipei Times
A document cited by the Chinese
Nationalist Party (KMT) when it accused Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of improper involvement in a biotechnology
company was altered twice with a “vicious motive” before it went public, the DPP
said yesterday.
Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) Minister Christina Liu
(劉憶如) on Dec. 12 disclosed a document dated March 31, 2007, which the KMT used
to accuse Tsai of wrongdoing in the formation of Yu Chang Biologics Co
(宇昌生技股份有限公司), now known as TaiMed Biologics Inc (中裕新藥股份有限公司), when Tsai served
as vice premier.
Liu apologized the next day for “confusing the dates” of the document, which was
actually from Aug. 19, 2007, but denied that she had forged the document.
DPP spokesperson Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) told a press conference yesterday that Liu
and the KMT were suspected of not only altering the date on the document, but
also erasing the marking tag of “Attachment No. 3” to cover up the fact that it
was one of six attachments to that document.
Liu said her agency confused the date because the document’s Attachment No. 2
was missing, an excuse that Chen described as weak.
The minister — or the KMT — could have intentionally altered the date and
removed the attachment marking on the document, which stated that Tsai would be
one of Yu Chang’s core leaders, so people would assume Tsai had planned to make
an improper profit when she was in government, Chen said.
Tsai served as vice premier from 2006 to 2007 and resigned on May 20, 2007,
before being named as Yu Chang’s chairperson in August that year.
“What they did was simple. Whoever did this — Liu or the KMT ... took out
Attachment No. 3 from the Aug. 19 document, removed the marking and said it was
a March 31 presentation, so the public would believe that Tsai [was guilty of]
improper conduct as vice premier,” Chen said. “We wonder who made the
alterations. Was it Liu or the KMT legislative caucus?”
“The DPP strongly condemns the forgery,” Chen added , demanding that Liu
disclose all six attachments of the Aug. 19 document and explain who altered the
document, as well as when and where the document was forged.
Chen also urged the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigation Division
(SID) and Prosecutor-General Huang Shyh-ming (黃世銘) to disclose all the documents
related to the so-called “Yu Chang case,” which had been seized by the SID, for
the public to examine.
Chen reiterated that Tsai’s role in the case was clear — that she wanted to do
her best to help with the development of Taiwan’s biotechnology industry and
that she never imagined that she would be persuaded by scientists to serve as
the company’s chair.
“Liu claimed that the case was complicated because she sees the world through
stained glasses,” Chen said.
The evidence that the DPP has provided showed that this was a KMT smear campaign
and there could be someone behind the scenes who manipulated the entire case in
an effort to discredit Tsai’s presidential campaign, DPP spokesperson Chuang
Ruei-hsiung (莊瑞雄) added.
“Our question for Liu is a simple one: Why did she pull the attachment from the
Aug. 19 document and change the date to March 31?” he said.
At a separate setting yesterday, KMT Legislator Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) rebutted the
DPP’s allegation, saying the KMT caucus did not alter the copy of the document
provided by the CEPD in any way.
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