KMT illegally acquired land: assets committeeBy Chen Yu-fu and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee said that its initial investigation found that the plots of land housing multiple Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) service centers across the nation were illegally acquired during the Martial Law era. Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee Chairman Lin Feng-jeng, center, speaks at a news conference at the committee’s headquarters in Taipei in an undated photograph. Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei TimesThe KMT in 1987 purchased the land on which it built the KMT Nuannuan Service Center from the Keelung City Government, the committee said. The KMT Gaoshu Service Center in Pingtung County’s Gaoshu Township (高樹) was built in the 1950s on a piece of township-owned land that the KMT had “occupied,” it said. The KMT in 2008 resold the land and property to Kuang-Hwa Investment, it added.

Source: Taipei Times June 25, 2020 15:56 UTC