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Taipei museum curator probed for embezzling art gift
By Wang Qingchu |
February 7, 2012, Tuesday
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THE director of Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is being investigated for allegations that he took possession of a precious painting sent to the museum by a Beijing art academy.
Tseng Kun-ti was accused of embezzling the painting valued at NT$30 million (US$1 million) while he was curator of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported today.
Tseng was led away for investigation after prosecutors found the painting in his office. He was later released on a NT$100,000 bail.
The painting was sent as a gift by Beijing Sanbai Calligraphy and Painting Academy to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in June 2010 as a symbol of the blood bond between people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, the report said.
A well-known mainland artist was commissioned by the academy to make the painting, "Mazu Blesses China," in August 2009 when the island province was battered by typhoon Morakot.
Mazu is a goddess widely worshipped in Taiwan and Fujian Province.
Tseng Kun-ti was accused of embezzling the painting valued at NT$30 million (US$1 million) while he was curator of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported today.
Tseng was led away for investigation after prosecutors found the painting in his office. He was later released on a NT$100,000 bail.
The painting was sent as a gift by Beijing Sanbai Calligraphy and Painting Academy to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in June 2010 as a symbol of the blood bond between people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, the report said.
A well-known mainland artist was commissioned by the academy to make the painting, "Mazu Blesses China," in August 2009 when the island province was battered by typhoon Morakot.
Mazu is a goddess widely worshipped in Taiwan and Fujian Province.
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