Chen Hsin-yu (陳信瑜) on Sunday last week resigned as commissioner of the Taipei Department of Labor, two days after being charged with corruption by the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) has not tapped a replacement for Chen, who was investigated in connection to discrepancies in the records of an executive slush fund.
Prosecutors are seeking to charge her for allegedly contravening the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例) and forgery laws of the Criminal Code.
Complaints were first brought against Chen by Taipei city councilors, who accused her of improperly sharing confidential information about city residents with Ko and Taipei Deputy Mayor
Su Wei-shuo (蘇偉碩) yesterday filed rumor-spreading and libel charges against Council of Agriculture (COA) Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) over statements about US trade policy concerning pork.
Su, a former physician at the Tainan branch of Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital and a member of an alliance of groups that opposes the use leanness-enhancing agents on pigs, including ractopamine, filed the charges at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office.
Su quoted the COA as saying in a news release that Taiwan stands to lose beneficial trade arrangements if a referendum today to prohibit imports of pork products containing traces of ractopamine is successful.
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