Prosecutors search Kaohsiung council speaker’s officeBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterInvestigators yesterday searched the home and office of Kaohsiung City Council Speaker Zeng Li-yan (曾麗燕) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Investigators seized Zeng’s office registry and accounting documents from the past 10 years to examine payments to office assistants. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Kaohsiung City Council Speaker Zeng Li-yan is pictured in an undated photograph in Kaohsiung. Photo: Ko You-hao, Taipei TimesZeng, 68, and her assistants were summoned for questioning at the the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office. In 2009, 20 Kaohsiung councilors were indicted on charges of corruption and forgery for similar offenses.

Source: Taipei Times March 18, 2021 16:05 UTC