A senior military official at the Ministry of National Defense’s Armaments Bureau has been detained for allegedly demanding NT$45 million (US$1.61 million) in bribes from a contractor.
Major General Chang Ta-wei (張大偉), who heads the bureau’s Construction and Facilities Section, and former BES Engineering Corp chairman Shen Hwa-yeang (沈華養) were yesterday detained under restricted communication after law enforcement authorities raided their offices and residences early this week.
New Taipei City prosecutors suspect that Chang received bribes from BES executives for a big tender project to build a facility at Fuhsing Barracks in Taipei’s Gongguan area (公館) for Air Combat Command.
The tender