Liu Cheng-hung


Liu Cheng-hung is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Miaoli County from 20 December 2005 until 25 December 2014.

Controversies

Shoe throwing incident

On 18 September 2013, a shoe was thrown at him by student Chen Wei-ting when Liu attempted to offer his condolences during the memorial service to the family of a man named Chang Sen-wen, who was found dead in a water channel under a bridge at Dapu, Zhunan. Supporters and relatives of Chang held Liu responsible for Chang's death because Chang's pharmacy was one of several structures destroyed by the county government on 17 July 2013 to make way for the construction of a new campus at the Hsinchu Science Park. On 25 June 2015, the Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court ruled Chen guilty in the shoe-throwing incident but exempted him from any punishment.

Impeachment

The Control Yuan impeached Liu in August 2016 after an investigation found that Miaoli County accrued a debt of NT$67.6 billion under his leadership.