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DPP wants Huang Shih-ming
to resign and be detained
COLLUSION? A video recording caught the
prosecutor-general telling prosecutors to provide him with documents ahead of
his court appearances
By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming (黃世銘) should step down immediately and be
detained, especially after he was caught on tape possibly colluding to destroy
evidence, the Democratic Progressive Party said yesterday.
DPP Legislator Chiu Yi-ying (邱議瑩) on Tuesday released an audio recording at the
Legislative Yuan of a telephone conversation in which Huang ordered Special
Investigation Division (SID) prosecutors to send him certain documents in
preparation for his court appearances.
The telephone call was made during a break in a question-and-answer session at
the legislature and was Recorded by the legislature’s video-on-demand system.
“The conversation was proof of Huang colluding [with other prosecutors],” DPP
Legislator Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) told a press conference.
Huang and two SID prosecutors, Cheng Shen-yuan (鄭深元) and Yang Jung-tsun (楊榮宗),
have been listed as defendants in the secret-leaking case, while other
prosecutorial members of the division have been listed as witnesses, Chen said.
The case stems from allegations that Huang leaked information to President Ma
Ying-jeou (馬英九) about an ongoing investigation into alleged improper lobbying by
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), which later snowballed into a political
scandal following revelations that the SID wiretapped the legislature.
Meeting with SID prosecutors who work under his supervision daily, Huang was
able to collude with them and destroy evidence, the lawmaker alleged, adding
that was why Huang dared to claim innocence and refused to step down.
“If this is not destruction of evidence and collusion, I don’t know what is,”
DPP Legislator Gao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) said.
The DPP’s Central Standing Committee (CSC) yesterday passed a resolution
demanding Huang’s immediate resignation, DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲)
said.
“As a defendant, Huang is no longer fit to serve as prosecutor-general. Huang
would only bring harm to the nation’s judicial system each day he stays in his
position,” Lin said.
Citing a briefing given by National Taiwan University law professor Lin Yu-hsiung
(林鈺雄) at the weekly CSC meeting, Lin Chun-hsien quoted the professor as saying
that the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office’s investigation of the case
appeared to have “established a firewall around President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)”
and only held Huang accountable for his alleged misconduct.
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