Prosecutors have searched the opposition Kuomintang's headquarters in Taichung City in central Taiwan, with several staffers taken in for questioning. This comes after several other KMT offices were raided for alleged recall forgery, but authorities did not say whether the latest search is related to recall fraud.
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00:00Prosecutors in Taichung have searched the opposition Kuomintang's headquarters in the
00:05city, bringing staff in for questioning.
00:08It's a move KMT Chair Eric Zhu says is politically motivated.
00:30The search comes as prosecutors across Taiwan investigate more than a dozen people affiliated
00:41with the KMT for allegedly forging signatures on recall petitions to unseat ruling Democratic
00:48Progressive Party legislators.
00:50DPP lawmakers are calling on the KMT to cooperate with the investigation.
01:00Taichung prosecutors did not say whether Friday searches were related to forgery suspicions.