POLITICAL INFORMATION: LAND TAX GRAFT CASE, KANGTUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100550009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 19, 1946
• Content Type: IR

ADDroved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R0 411
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CENTRAL EN GROUP
MY EL IGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Chia
U3JECT .?off.:.tti l ;formation: Land
Manstung
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ORIGIN
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DiST 22 November 1946
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SUPPLEMENT
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Note; a Septe r 1945 the Central Goverment &-Aoutive Yuan
ordered ro oial. gone to to stop the oofeetion of a epee a3 land tax,
the Sha Fei (; )(oed the payment of ripe paddy
The K~gxng Ivol, oi.a3 ar nt, did not re-ia the order and contInued
collection of the tax under anp orviaic. of Governor Cho-y g, Tel G .eh- c
was s wp cted to be the leader in graft activities in connection tth the col-
lection of this tax,
1. The graft case aga .net LI Cbieh en N .s been dropped because Governor IA
Cha-ying was involved and received aharea of the graft.
2a Pioceed-ings to .peach Governor 1A0 C , ing have probably been stopped, also,
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as nothing more has been heard of the case, and there has been no mention Of
it In the Canton press.
Note: The anmosrit of money involved in the aft as
four billion rather than forty billion, as pr oua1y rep ortedo
with the
ra~ i j, or,, the
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