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Ex-officials may face criminal liability over lost files

The announcement of the investigation's results made by the Presidential Office was blasted by the opposition party, accusing that the timing for the announcement was a kind of political vendetta, as the majority of the officials allegedly involved are DPP members.

When asked to comment on the matter, Lu said yesterday that both she and former President Chen never handled those officially files personally.

Su also accused the ruling administration of abusing its power in this case.

“Such abuse of power will hurt both the country as a whole and hurt those who misuse the power,” he added.

In a move to defend all DPP ex-government officials, party spokesman Lin Yu-chang said the action taken by the ruling administration was “extremely absurd,” adding that the figures provided by the office are misleading because not all the documents received were official files.

“Many of the so-called missing files could include invitation letters, private letters, greeting cards or petition letters, none of which required filing,” Lin said.

Some opposition party members also questioned why the KMT government did not launch a probe into the earlier administration of Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), who held the presidency between 1988 to 2000.

During the same press conference yesterday, Lo refuted the accusations made from the opposition party, saying that the probe and announcement were not politically motivated.

“The government was simply taking action according to law and not taking anything else into account.”

The presidential spokesman also noted that the office hasn't found any evidence to show that former president Lee failed to handle official documents properly during the handing over of power.

In related news yesterday, the Special Investigation Division under the Supreme Prosecutors Office said yesterday that it will speed up an investigation into an allegation that corruption-plagued ex-President Chen took a large number of classified files away with him when he left the Presidential Office in May 2008.

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