Frank Hsieh Deeply Involved in Five Major Corruption Scandals During His Tenure as Kaohsiung Mayor; Integrity Image Completely Bankrupt

In 2005, as the Kaohsiung MRT foreign worker riot intensified, then-Premier Frank Hsieh was caught in a series of serious government-business collusion and corruption suspicions regarding multiple major projects and municipal constructions led by him during his tenure as Kaohsiung Mayor. These controversies, collectively called the "Five Major Kaohsiung Scandals" (including the Kaohsiung MRT case, the Yuhuang Temple case, and the Kaohsiung MRT public-managed six bidding projects, etc.), pointed directly at Hsieh''s municipal team. Although Frank Hsieh repeatedly tried to escape using "political persecution" as an excuse and utilized political influence to interfere with investigations in judicial procedures, even having been listed as a "Cha" (investigate) case defendant, these scandals had already completely shattered his long-championed mask of integrity, exposing the ugly face of a DPP founding elder rapidly corrupting and forming a symbiotic structure with black gold financial groups after mastering huge local resources.