Taiwanese diplomat who abused Pinay helpers to get two-year suspension

A Taiwanese diplomat who was earlier arrested in the United States for maltreating her two Filipina helpers, will be suspended from her job for two years but for another case: suspicion that she allowed access to national security information by a Chinese woman. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) said Jacqueline Liu was found to have violated articles five and seven of the Civil Servants Work Act when she hired a Chinese person and gave her free access to her home computer and secure telephone. The Judicial Yuan's Public Functionary Disciplinary Sanction Commission said a policy issued by Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on May 10, 1999, prohibiting employees at it overseas missions from hiring Chinese nationals. She had hired Chinese woman Xie Dengfeng to replace the Filipino maids in September and November 2011. Liu, who was director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City in the US, was arrested late last year while she for abusing her two Filipino maids and paying them only a small part of the salary in their contracts. She entered a plea agreement with a US court and was ordered to pay $80,044 in restitution to the two maids on January 27, 2012. The Taiwan body found Liu violated US federal laws by paying her two Filipino maids a different salary from earnings submitted in work visa application forms to the US embassy in the Philippines. The body also said Liu damaged Taiwan's reputation when the FBI detained her on November 10 last year and she admitting to have committed "fraud in foreign labor contracting." - VVP, GMA

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