NO. 105 WHARF: Yen Kuang-heng allegedly used his position as a legislator to pressure the port to outsource management of the wharf, which a Yen family-connected firm wonBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The New Power Party (NPP) yesterday accused former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Yen Kuang-heng (顏寬恆) in 2016 of abusing his power by removing the legal hurdles to his family securing a 20-year lease of the No. 105 wharf in the Port of Taichung.
Yen is the KMT’s candidate in a legislative by-election in Taichung’s second electoral district on Jan. 9 next year, following the recall of then-Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) last month.
NPP deputy caucus whip Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) told a news conference that the No. 105 wharf is a strategically important infrastructure and the Taiwan International