NCC's budget for lawsuits soared over the past 3 years
Posted on 2023-04-11 13:09:13
The NCC's budget for lawsuits and legal consultations have soared over the past 3 years to 13 million NT this year.
KMT lawmaker Hong Meng-kai questioned National Communications Commission chair Chen Yao-xiang on the issue yesterday, saying the budget is nearly 9 times the number in 2020.
Hong says when Chen's predecessor Zhan Yi-ting served as the chair from 2018 to 2020, the budget stayed at 1.5 million NT every year.
He says since Chen took office, the number of lawsuits filed against the regulator has increased quickly, with at least 20 of them involving CTI News, the TV channel that the NCC punished multiple times before shutting it down in 2020.
In response, Chen said his agency "was forced to defend its decisions" as it was usually the defendants in the lawsuits.
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