Kuo Yao-chi (郭瑤琪, Hanyu Pinyin: Guō Yáoqí) is a politician who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications in the Republic of China.^[1]

On Monday May 22, 2006, Liu Wen-hsiung, a legislator from the People First Party, accused Kuo of appointing Wu Cheng-chih, a friend who was recommended by her husband, to the secretary-general position of the China Aviation Development Foundation as a form of nepotism; Liu said that Weng did not have the proper aviation background. Liu said that she did not practice nepotism and that she would seek to have action taken against Liu.^[2] Kuo was arrested and charged with bribery; prosecutors accused her of receiving a $20,000 United States dollars bribe. She was released for a $600,000 New Taiwan dollars bail, which was equivalent to $20,000 USD. Prosecutors confiscated a tea can containing $20,000 U.S. dollars in cash and an additional $2,100 USD; the prosecutors said they could not link the $2,100 with bribery. Kuo said that she took the tea as a gift from Nan Ren Hu Group president Lee Ching-po, but that she did not accept cash.^[3]

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