A National Taiwan University (NTU) committee has concluded that former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (???) committed plagiarism in his master’s degree thesis, and it described the offense as serious.

At a news conference in Taipei on Tuesday, NTU Vice President for Academic Affairs Ding Shih-torng (???) said the committee found that Lin copied the thesis of Yu Cheng-huang (???), seriously violating academic integrity.

It suggested that the university revoke the master’s degree Lin received in 2017 from the Graduate Institute of National Development, where he and Yu studied, Ding said.

The committee, led by Su Hung-dah (???), dean of NTU’s College of Social Sciences, was set up in late July specifically to investigate the plagiarism.

The allegations against Lin went viral in early July after Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (???) of the opposition Kuomintang filed a complaint with NTU accusing Lin of academic plagiarism, which Lin denied and called it “slanderous.”

The former Hsinchu mayor, who has been nominated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to run for mayor of Taoyuan in late November’s local government elections, has repeatedly insisted on his innocence while trying to keep his candidacy afloat.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel