Tuesday 07th December, 04:18 AM JST
TAIPEI —
Taiwan’s High Court ruled Monday that former President Chen Shui-bian serve 17 years and six months in jail for two corruption convictions.
The High Court also handed a fine of NT$154 million (about U.S.$5 million) to Chen, who was transferred last week from a detention center where he had spent the last two years to Taipei Prison in Guishan, Taoyuan County.
After several High Court verdicts were appealed, the Supreme Court on Nov 11 upheld bribery convictions for Chen and his wife, Wu Shu-jen, over a land deal and for a bribery case linked to the former head of a company running the Taipei 101 building.
Chen, 60, and Wu, 58, received 11 years for the first case and eight years for the second, while Wu received an additional six months for money-laundering in the latter case, but a cumulative sentence was not announced pending an application from prosecutors.
The length of Chen’s prison sentence could increase because other graft cases are working their way through appellate courts, including several in the Nov 11 verdict that were sent back to the High Court for reappraisal.
The court has yet to rule on the length of Wu’s prison sentence based on her first two guilty convictions.
No comments:
Post a Comment