The family of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) has sold a mansion in Taichung’s Shalu District (沙鹿), with the new owner to take responsibility for the allegedly illegal structure, the Taichung City Government said yesterday. Yen last month lost a legislative by-election in the city’s second electoral district to Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) of the Democratic Progressive Party. During Yen’s electoral campaign, the mansion had come under scrutiny, as it was suspected to have been built on a formerly publicly owned plot in a zone where construction was prohibited on grounds of environmental protection. Yen’s office yesterday confirmed that