KMT criticizes outcome of probeHANDS TIED: The Control Yuan said that regulations prevented it from censuring the Presidential Office and the NSB, but the KMT said it could impeach officialsBy Shih Hsiao-kuang / Staff reporterThe Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said that the Control Yuan had committed “self-castration” in failing to censure the Presidential Office and the National Security Bureau (NSB) over a cigarette smuggling case last year. Control Yuan members Kao Yung-cheng (高涌誠), Wang Mei-yu (王美玉) and Peter Chang (張武修) on Thursday revealed the results of their investigation and issued corrective notices to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Customs Administration. The entrance to the Control Yuan is pictured in Taipei on June 17. However, in the cigarette smuggling case, the Control Yuan chose to circumscribe itself, making it nothing more than a “paper-made” apparatus, it said. The KMT said that Control Yuan members have become timid in the face of former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Chu (陳菊), who is to become Control Yuan president next month.

Source: Taipei Times July 24, 2020 15:56 UTC