Friday, August 22, 2008

Taiwan prosecutors to summon Chen Shui-bian, family members

Prosecutors said here on Thursday they would summon ex-Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian and four of his family members for interrogation in regards to an overseas money-laundering case.

The others are Chen's wife Wu Shu-chen, son Chen Chih-chung, daughter-in-law Huang Jui-ching and brother-in-law Wu Ching-mao.

Prosecutors will also question Yeh Sheng-mao, former head of Taiwan's "investigation bureau," for allegedly concealing information on Chen's case, and George Liu, Taiwan's former "representative" to Switzerland, for allegedly delaying a notice of assistance for an investigation by the Swiss side.

Prosecutors found Chen's family had remitted large sums of money worth nearly 1 billion N.T. dollars to bank accounts in Switzerland, Singapore, Cayman Islands and other countries.

Currently, Chen has been barred from leaving the island, while his son and daughter-in-law left for the United States a few days before the money-laundering issue was exposed by Taiwan media last week.

In related developments, Wu Shu-chen's sister-in-law was suspected of a suicide attempt by taking excessive sleeping pills after she was summonsed by prosecutors for the probe. But Wu Ching-mao denied it and said his wife had taken too many of the pills due to pressure.

Source: Xinhua

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