Staff writer, with CNAChiayi Mayor Tu Hsiing-jer (涂醒哲) on Monday pressed defamation charges against his former Health Bureau director-general Huang Wei-min (黃維民), who sent department employees an e-mail criticizing Tu earlier the same day, which was his last day of work. Chiayi City Government Secretary-General Lai Ming-huang (賴明煌) filed the charge with the Chiayi District Prosecutors’ Office on behalf of Tu, on the grounds that Huang slandered Tu’s team with unfounded remarks. Tu agonized over pressing a charges against Huang, a friend of his, who had a stroke while helping Tu campaign for Chiayi mayor in 2014, the statement said. Quoting Tu, the statement said all of Huang’s accusations — particularly the insinuation that Tu sought to inappropriately benefit a pharmaceutical company — were baseless and did injustice to the city government’s work over the past 30 months. “The city government had to press charges,” the statement quoted Tu as saying.

Source: Taipei Times August 05, 2017 15:56 UTC