From: hhwu@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (eric.wu)
Subject: Re: 18 Biou (1)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:18:03 GMT
Keywords: Bribery

In article <1992Aug25.181356.15032@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Pei-Yuan Chang) writes:
>  For people who wanna know somethinfg about 18 "Biou", here is some
>feelings of ordinary people in TW on this case.   From my friend's (who is in 
>TW) letter received yesterday, Jan(3), yo(4)-hsing(1), minister of the 
>Transporation Department, is alleged taking bribery from lots of construction
>company in TW, such as "Pai(3) Er(4) Kao(1)" (the second highway, section of
>north TW), and "TPE trasnsmit system" (source from the front page of 8/19 China
>Times Daily)
>
>  There was a TV press conference for Jan on 8/18.  According to my friend's
>description, Jan's "lousy mouth and face show his guilt" (sorry, too 
>subjective, but...)  Besides, Jan showed that nobody could get any evidence for
>the bribery and proud of it.  So TW CIA swaered to get evidence and kick Jan
>out of his present position.
>
>  Anyone who has more details please post them for us, thanks!
>
>--Christine

Here is some information from WJ.  Please note that I didn't 
read it very carefully and some of the summary may not exactly 
reflect what WJ reported.  Treat it as a hearsay or skip the 
whole article.

0. According to "Jian Wei" Mr. Zhang Wen Hsieng:
a. Minister Jen is at fault for authorizing Gau Gon Ju
(Freeway Engineering Bureau) to change the bidding from 
"competition" to "negotiation" without notifying his own 
department in charge.
b. The base price for negotiation did not follow the
standardized procedure.

1. DPP "Li Wei" Ms. Yeh revealed the whole event to the public.

2. Ms. Yeh accused six Li Wei (Hsin Lian Sien) for "Guan Shwo" 
Minister Jen.  She wanted Diaw Char Ju to reveal their investigation
but the latter wouldn't.  She said DCJ was trying to protect 
the three heavy weights and to sacrifice the three lesser ones 
for the next election. 

3. "Li Wei" Lee Sheng Fun, one of those accused by Ms. Yeh, 
wanted to have a face to face debate with Jen and Yeh in an 
open forum but Yeh refused.  (I didn't see the response from Jen).

4. An KMT related consulting firm successfully negotiated
for a very high fee to supervise the construction.

5. Veteran's Engineering Co. initially wanted to get the job 
for 3.4 billion NT.  (But I think Pacific Engineering got it 
for 1.8 billion.  Many people in that business said the job 
cannot be done with 1.8 B but they also agreed that PE might 
just want this job to qualify for future lucrative jobs.)

6. GGJ and Department of Transportation both believed
they were unnecessarily involved in the investigation.

7. Premier Hau said he wanted to see more through
investigation and, in the next day, the Executive Yan News 
Bureau said Hau didn't mean to interfere the Justice branch.

8. News on the 18B case disappeared from the paper when the 
Korea/PRC thing exploded.

Two more construction related news from WJ: 
1). A high raised parking garage were systematically "Wai 
Biau"ed and the winner was being prosecuted.  The winner of 
the bid got four other companies to bid with him and he paid 
the four to go to Japan to get technical support and all 
the agreements from the Japanese looked the same.  One 
evidence used by the prosecutor was that he won the 150
million job with an 149 M bid.

2). A pair of bothers were arrested for cheating 100 billion
NT in tax with "Ren Tow" construction companies in the past 
decades.  I don't know how this could happen.  Assuming 30% 
tax rate and 30% profit margin, the bothers needed to do 
1111 billion business to pay 100 B in tax.

Eric
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