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Court rules women's league has KMT ties
The Taipei High Administrative Court has ruled that the National Women's League was an affiliate of the KMT before 2004 and as such has been ordered to pay NT$17.89 billion to the state.
The ruling comes after the women's group sued the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee in 2018. The lawsuit was filed shortly after the committee classified the National Women's League as a KMT affiliate in February of that year. The women's league had argued it had not been controlled or run by the political party and the committee's classification was incorrect. The committee also froze the assets of the women's group, including NT$38.5 billion in cash.
The Taipei High Administrative Court says it took it six years and eight months to make a ruling because the trial was suspended over questions surrounding the Statute for the Handling of Ill-gotten Assets by Political Parties and Their Affiliate Organizations. The court then sought the Constitutional Court's review of the statute and resumed trial in 2020 after the Justices decided that the law passed by the legislature was constitutional.
The trail was also delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
