KMT Yilan official found guilty in recall forgery case

By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA Yilan District Court yesterday found a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) official guilty of forging signatures during a recall campaign targeting Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Chun-yu (陳俊宇).The ruling is not final.KMT Yilan chapter convener Lin Ming-chang (林明昌) was found guilty of contravening the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法) and sentenced to one year and six months in prison, the verdict said. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Yilan chapter convener Lin Ming-chang is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Wang Chun-chi, Taipei Times Lin in January last year ordered staff members to forge signatures from party membership records to help attain the number of signatures necessary to launch a recall, the court said.The fo