TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei prosecutors announced the indictment of former President Ma Ying-jeou for leaking confidential information in a wiretapping case in 2013. In addition, prosecutors found Ma in violation of the Communication Security and Surveillance Act and the Control Act. Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Ker Chien-ming filed the lawsuit against Ma in 2013, accusing Ma of leaking details from an ongoing criminal investigation. Ker claimed that Ma leaked information obtained by then-prosecutor-general Huang Shih-ming, who was investigating allegations of improper political lobbying between Ker and then-Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng of the Kuomintang by wiretapping telephone conversations. Ma has repeatedly maintained his innocence, and his lawyers deny that Huang was instructed to leak information of those conversations.

Source: The China Post March 14, 2017 02:50 UTC