Eleven KMT members indicted for recall petition forgeryStaff writer, with CNAThe Chiayi District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted 11 members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for forging more than 1,900 signatures in a petition to recall Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Mei-hui (王美惠). Two volunteers were given deferred prosecution for one year and required to pay a NT$50,000 fine, while the initiator of the recall petition, surnamed Chen (陳), was not indicted, it said. On Jan. 24 last year, Chang convened a meeting with party branch officials, during which party member data and recall petition forms were distributed, prosecutors said, adding that the attendees then allegedly forged the signatures of party members. Chen, unaware of the forgery, subsequently submitted 2,505 recall petitions to the Central Election Commission, exceeding the required threshold of 2,159 signatures, prosecutors said. An investigation found that the handwriting on approximately 1,900 petition forms matched that of the indicted individuals, prosecutors said.
