The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee yesterday announced the improper sale of a state-owned property in Taipei by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) that was previously overlooked due to a decades-old clerical error.
The Taipei Police Hostel on Nanyang Street and the land it stands on were sold by the KMT during the Martial Law era, despite rightfully belonging to the public, the commission said in its latest report.
The KMT had confiscated the Japanese colonial-era building near Taipei Railway Station to use as its provincial party headquarters. It was one of 85 government buildings in the first batch of properties appropriated