Media personality charged with libel of president
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The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Wednesday charged media personality Dennis Peng (彭文正) with aggravated libel for accusing President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of having forged her academic credentials.
Prosecutors said that documents and other evidence prove that Tsai completed her doctoral dissertation, passed an oral examination and obtained her doctoral degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984.
They charged Peng, formerly a journalism professor at National Taiwan University (NTU), for alleging in 2019 that Tsai’s academic credentials were fake.
Ho De-fen, law professor emeritus at National Taiwan University, holds a news conference in Taipei yesterday calling on prosecutors not to give defendants different treatment in a lawsuit brought by President Tsai Ing-wen.
One hurt in scrum over Su Chen-ching
MEDIA FRENZY: The lawmaker said that there were too many journalists as he left a courthouse, amid accusations that he and his escorts had caused people to fall
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Accusations of infringement of media freedom were leveled against Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Su Chen-ching (蘇震清) after a photographer sustained a head injury in a scuffle.
On Friday, Su was released on NT$10 million (US$351,964) bail after being detained for 179 days amid a corruption probe relating to a Pacific SOGO Department Store ownership battle.
Videos of the incident showed Su and men escorting him exiting the Taipei District Court amid a large media presence.
Carry Hi-tech, owner charged with mislabeling masks
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The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday indicted a company and its owner for allegedly importing millions of nonmedical-grade masks from China and selling them through the government rationing program as “Made in Taiwan,” taking in NT$34.07 million (US$1.2 million) in illegal gains.
New Taipei City-based Carry Hi-tech and owner Lin Ming-chin (林明進) were indicted for alleged breaches of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (藥事法), for mislabeling a product’s country of origin as stipulated in Article 255 of the Criminal Code and for fraud as stipulated in Article 339 of the code.
Another of Lin’s companies was indicted for allegedly producing medical-grade masks for children without government approval, a breach of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, prosecutors said.
Asset managers detained in labor fund bribery case
EXPANDED INVESTIGATION: The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office has conducted raids on the residences of two suspects; five suspects have been detained in the case
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The Taipei District Court on Friday ordered that PJ Asset Management CEO Daniel Tarng (唐楚烈) and three others be detained with restricted communication as part of a growing investigation into the alleged bribery of a Ministry of Labor funds manager in a stock manipulation scheme.
The court approved a request by the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office to detain Tarng and PJ Asset Management executive Chiu Yu-yuan (邱裕元), as well as Fuh Hwa Securities Investment Trust Co chief investment officer John Chiu (邱明強) and Fuh Hwa asset manager Marco Liu (劉建賢), for suspected breaches of the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法).
2020/12/11 13:17 PJAM CEO Tang Chu-lie (left), Fuh Hwa Chief Investment Officer Chiu Ming-chiang (CNA photos) PJAM CEO Tang Chu-lie (left), Fuh Hwa Chief Investment Officer Chiu Ming-chiang (CNA photos) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The CEO and other executives of one of Taiwan s largest asset management companies are being held incommunicado after being questioned over an alleged national labor fund investment scandal, the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office said Friday (Dec. 11). The office launched the third stage of its bribery investigation on Thursday (Dec. 10). A Ministry of Labor official responsible for labor fund management was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly engaging in stock speculation.