|
CHINA> Taiwan, HK, Macao
![]() |
|
Chen in custody for money laundering
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-12 07:37 TAIPEI -- Former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian was in custody Tuesday after being questioned in a money-laundering case.
Chen, 58, left a special prosecutor's office in handcuffs after more than five hours inside as about 300 police officers guarded the area to fend off any protests. Chen raised his hands into the air to show his handcuffs to a crowd of media outside the prosecutor's office before he was pushed into a waiting car to be driven to a Taipei district courthouse. But hours later, Chen was taken to a Taipei hospital, prompting the suspension of a court proceeding to determine whether he should be formally detained on corruption charges. His lawyer Lai Ching-te said the Taipei district court ordered Chen to be evaluated for a possible injury he sustained earlier in the day en route to the court building. There was no additional information on the circumstances of the injury. As Chen was led away from the prosecutor's office, he could be heard shouting: "This is political persecution" and "Cheers for Taiwan". Chen's defiance notwithstanding, millions of Taiwanese revile him for permitting his tenure to be mired in an atmosphere of systematic corruption. Friends and close advisors have been imprisoned on a variety of graft charges, his wife is being tried for allegedly looting a special "presidential" fund, and Chen himself is facing a complex series of judicial probes. |
灵宝市| 大同县| 安顺市| 横山县| 桐梓县| 安远县| 乌什县| 东明县| 赞皇县| 县级市| 曲阜市| 股票| 屏山县| 长乐市| 伽师县| 江永县| 杭锦后旗| 阳城县| 桂平市| 汉沽区| 远安县| 阿图什市| 卢氏县| 宁陕县| 徐水县| 九江县| 江安县| 民和| 如东县| 佛冈县| 芒康县| 正蓝旗| 芜湖县| 濮阳市| 万州区| 林周县| 科技| 赣榆县| 桐柏县| 沁阳市| 林州市|