Taipei prosecutors found that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Chin Huei-chu (秦慧珠) had allegedly paid NT$80 million (US$2.69 million at the current exchange rate) for information from Chinese informants, while investigating Chin’s fraud lawsuit against socialite Lin Yuan-chun (林爰君), better known as JoJo Lin.
Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against Lin, who was named along with two other people as defendants, saying that they could not substantiate the fraud allegations.
Lin was reportedly unable to speak after going through a major illness.
Banking records and other evidence showed that Chin and her assistants had from 2007 to 2016 transferred a
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucuses in 22 cities and counties yesterday jointly declared that they would defend the nation’s food safety, as KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) called for changes to the School Health Act (學校衛生法).
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration is failing to uphold food safety by lifting a ban on most food imports from five Japanese prefectures implemented after the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster, Chu told a news conference in Taipei.
KMT caucuses held similar news conference across the nation.
The government on Tuesday announced that it would end the ban on Feb. 28.
Ensuring food safety is a
By Yang Hsin-hui and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerChinese Nationalist Party （KMT） caucuses in 22 cities and counties yesterday jointly declared that they would defend the nation’s food safety, as KMT Chairman Eric Chu （朱立倫） called for changes to the School Health Act （學校衛生法）.