Taiwan's anti-corruption agency Monday announced that two employees of Taipei's Palace Museum were found illegally copying digital documents of the museum's cultural relics, such as "Lung Tsang Ching" and "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" to seek personal profit.

The two employees are suspected of violating regulations on anti-corruption as well as regulations on copyright protection. The local anti-corruption agency Monday collected relevant evidence and brought the two employees back for questioning.

According to the agency, the two employees, surnamed Chen and Ye, with the museum's culture innovation and marketing department, found that remarkable profits could be earned through copying the museum's digital documents of cultural relics in 2008 when they promoted the publication of "Lung Tsang Ching," a 100,000-page Buddhist scripture that dates back 342 years.

They later took advantage of their posts to get access to the museum's digital documents of cultural relics, illegally copied them and tried to seek profits through selling the copy, according to the anti-corruption agency.

The agency said Taipei's Palace Museum spent more than ten years digitalizing the cultural relics. Individuals who borrow the museum's digital documents need to be registered and all lent documents must be destroyed after being used.

To better promote Chinese cultural relics, Taipei's Palace Museum spent seven years digitalizing the "Lung Tsang Ching," a hand-copied in gold ink Buddhist scripture of the Qing Dynasty. Since January 2008, only 500 copies were officially published, and each copy was sold at as much as 1.88 million New Taiwan dollars (1 US dollar equal to 30.165 New Taiwan dollars).

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