TAIPEI: A Taiwanese watchdog Friday called for President Ma Ying-jeou to be probed over claims he allowed a company off almost $100 million in payments for a massive Taipei construction project while the city's mayor.

The Clean Government Committee has been investigating Ma, whose immunity from prosecution expires next year, for allegedly granting favours to Farglory Land Development Co., which signed the contract with the city government to build the Taipei Dome stadium in 2006.

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