Five Questions for the Control Yuan! Press Conference on the "Second Rejection of the Impeachment of Huang Shih-ming"

On September 16, our Foundation formally submitted a written petition to the Control Yuan, detailing specific reasons and requesting an investigation and accountability regarding the illegal malfeasance of former Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu, Taiwan High Prosecutors Office Chief Prosecutor Chen Shou-huang, and handling prosecutor Lin Hsiu-tao—who were implicated in the alleged lobbying scandal—alongside Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming and Special Investigation Division handling prosecutor Cheng Shen-yüan, who were implicated in illegal abuse of power.

To our dismay, following the Control Yuan's rejection of Control Members Wu Feng-shan and Hung Te-hsuan's impeachment proposal against Huang Shih-ming by a vote of 5 to 5 on November 29, the proposal was rejected yet again yesterday (January 7) by a vote of 6 to 6. Our Foundation has gone from disappointment to despair, and we find this utterly unacceptable.

Our Foundation believes that Huang Shih-ming's abuse of power through wiretapping, unlawful leakage of secrets, and other illegal and abusive acts found within Case File Te-Tzu No. 61 are concrete and definitive. He has already been indicted by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office, and the Prosecutors Evaluation Commission has explicitly recommended his removal from office, making him entirely unfit to serve as Prosecutor-General. His personal illegal abuse of power has not only sapped the morale of the entire prosecutorial system but also destroyed its public credibility, amounting to a severe dereliction of duty. In a major public-interest case of this magnitude, given the divergent determinations within the Control Yuan, concrete reasons must be provided to convince the general public.

Based on the aforementioned reasons, our Foundation has come to the Control Yuan today to raise the following five questions, urging the Control Yuan to publicly respond:

1. Was yesterday's review meeting the second review of the previous one (November 28)? Or was it the first review concerning the part involving the Prosecutors Evaluation Commission?
2. If yesterday was the first review concerning the Prosecutors Evaluation Commission, when will a second review be proposed?
3. If yesterday was the second review following the previous one (November 28), when will the first review concerning the Prosecutors Evaluation Commission take place?
4. If the Control Yuan considers the two matters to be consolidated into a single case, returning to question 2, when will a second review be proposed?
5. Additionally, regarding the previous complaint against President Wang Chien-shien for violating Article 12 by interfering in the case, has the Control Yuan initiated an investigation?

Attendees

Attorney Chang Ching, Working Committee Member, Judicial Reform Foundation
Attorney Kao Jung-chih, Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Media Contact

Attorney Kao Jung-chih 02-2523-1178