The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday apologized for mistakes it made when declaring political donations it received during the presidential election campaign from late last year to early this year.
The party and its Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), who was the party’s presidential candidate, have in the past week been questioned by political pundits about alleged false declarations regarding political donations it received during its presidential election campaign.
The party apologized for what it said had been mistakes made during accounting, adding that it would conduct a full check of the inventory data again and resubmit the correct data to the Control Yuan, in accordance with the regulations.
Photo: Taipei Times file
The speculation by pundits was based on the Control Yuan’s open data on political donations, with one pundit questioning why more than NT$10 million (US$324,400) labeled as “licensing fees” were transferred to a public relations firm, the head of which was a financial officer for Ko’s election campaign.
OCT Entertainment Co (時樂) on Friday issued a statement saying that the TPP’s political donations declaration data show that the party paid NT$5 million to the company for promotional advertisement services on Dec. 20 last year, but the company did not carry out these services.
Following the statement, political pundit Kang Jen-chun (康仁俊) said Neo Creative Marketing Production Co (尼奧創意行銷) found that the TPP declared it paid about NT$2.16 million on Dec. 20 last year and NT$2 million on Jan. 15 to the company, which the company did not receive.
The TPP in a statement yesterday said that the three records — the NT$5 million promotional fee to OCT Entertainment Co on Dec. 20 last year, the NT$2,164,111 expense on Dec. 20 last year and the NT$2 million expense on Jan. 15 to Neo Creative Marketing Production Co — were mistakes made during accounting, and that it would correct the information as soon as possible.
It said Ko’s presidential election campaign donation account received nearly 180,000 small donations, and it had taken a lot of accounting manpower and time to make an inventory of the donations and examine them.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck off Tainan at 11:47am today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 32.3km northeast of Tainan City Hall at a depth of 7.3km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Tainan and Chiayi County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Chiayi City and County, and Yunlin County, while it was measured as 2 in Kaohsiung, Nantou County, Changhua County, Taitung County and offshore Penghu County, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of
Weather conditions across Taiwan are expected to remain stable today, but cloudy to rainy skies are expected from tomorrow onward due to increasing moisture in the atmosphere, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). Daytime highs today are expected to hit 25-27°C in western Taiwan and 22-24°C in the eastern counties of Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung, data on the CWA website indicated. After sunset, temperatures could drop to 16-17°C in most parts of Taiwan. For tomorrow, precipitation is likely in northern Taiwan as a cloud system moves in from China. Daytime temperatures are expected to hover around 25°C, the CWA said. Starting Monday, areas
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is maintaining close ties with Beijing, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday, hours after a new round of Chinese military drills in the Taiwan Strait began. Political parties in a democracy have a responsibility to be loyal to the nation and defend its sovereignty, DPP spokesman Justin Wu (吳崢) told a news conference in Taipei. His comments came hours after Beijing announced via Chinese state media that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command was holding large-scale drills simulating a multi-pronged attack on Taiwan. Contrary to the KMT’s claims that it is staunchly anti-communist, KMT Deputy
Taiwan has recorded its first fatal case of Coxsackie B5 enterovirus in 10 years after a one-year-old boy from southern Taiwan died from complications early last month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. CDC spokesman Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞) told a news conference that the child initially developed a fever and respiratory symptoms before experiencing seizures and loss of consciousness. The boy was diagnosed with acute encephalitis and admitted to intensive care, but his condition deteriorated rapidly, and he passed away on the sixth day of illness, Lo said. This also marks Taiwan’s third enterovirus-related death this year and the first severe
RSS