Taiwan ex-president Chen Shui Bian jailed for life
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8250099.stm
Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of corruption by a court in Taipei.
Mr Chen was charged with embezzlement, taking bribes and money laundering, involving a total of $15m (£9m) while in office from 2000-2008.
Mr Chen had denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated.
His wife, Wu Shu-chen, already jailed for perjury in the case, was also sentenced to life for corruption.
The two were accused of embezzling $3.15m (£1.9m) from a special presidential fund and laundering it through Swiss banks.
They were also accused of accepting at least $9m in bribes from a Taiwanese company to help it sell a piece of land to the government and of accepting nearly $3m more in kickbacks for helping a contractor gain a government project.
Mrs Wu had been sentenced on 2 September to one year in prison for perjury for asking her children to lie in court.
Nine other accused, including Mr Chen's son and daughter-in-law, have pleaded guilty to some charges related to the case.
The case gripped the nation, correspondents say, with many expecting a guilty verdict but some believing it was political revenge on the part of the new ruling party.
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hoho
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So is he and his wife already in jail or have they run overseas to hide?
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Life sentence for Chen Shuibian and his wife Wu Shuzhen
Son and daughter-in-law get 2 1/2 years and 1 yr 8 months respectively, fined NT150m
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poor ah bian and his wife. going to spend the rest of their life in prison and die there too
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I wish LKY and his son will get life imprisonment too
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wahahhah~~~ finally!!!!!
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Sigh.....
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Maybe ah bian can pretent to be mad so that they will send him to mental hospital instead..
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ho sey liao!
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Originally posted by sexy girls:
The two were accused of embezzling $3.15m (£1.9m) from a special presidential fund and laundering it through Swiss banks.
Why didn't he increase his salary to 3 or 4 million like our prime minister Lee Hsien Loong?
That would be legal.
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i would wish to see what really happened, why would he accept bribes as a president is beyond comprehension
the thought provoking part here is which company actually bribed him?
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why do people still want to join politics?
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Originally posted by noopi:
why do people still want to join politics?
Power and Money.
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Wow nice.
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Hate politics.
Never want to go near it.
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His son, DIL all tio also
But it's going to be a long struggle w/ e Ah Bian side. They'll forever say it's w/ CCP influence
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waa.. whole family tio jail??
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whether the communist bastards were behind it or not, if he and his bloody stupid wife did not go and do all the shady deals (factually proven to be under the table), no one would have anything to pin on him...
off topic, does anyone still remember the "assassination attempt" on him? i still think it was a cynical and screwed up publicity stunt aimed to win sympathy
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Originally posted by lianamaster:
Hate politics.
Never want to go near it.
The thing is that you don't touch politics.
politics touch you.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
whether the communist bastards were behind it or not, if he and his bloody stupid wife did not go and do all the shady deals (factually proven to be under the table), no one would have anything to pin on him...
off topic, does anyone still remember the "assassination attempt" on him? i still think it was a cynical and screwed up publicity stunt aimed to win sympathy
Maybe he and his wife did not do the shady deals but its the communist bastard who frame him leh.
You try to pull a fake assassination attempt on yourself lor see whether it works anot than come and tell us k
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errr... if Ah Bian's party wins the next election, what will happen??
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Originally posted by alancia:
Maybe he and his wife did not do the shady deals but its the communist bastard who frame him leh.
You try to pull a fake assassination attempt on yourself lor see whether it works anot than come and tell us k
it was proven that they did the deals
and the assassination attempt? it was lame as hell.. i think after a while, everyone let it slide coz they figure it's that lame
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Originally posted by the Bear:
it was proven that they did the dealsand the assassination attempt? it was lame as hell.. i think after a while, everyone let it slide coz they figure it's that lame
Proven by who? By the police or the government?
the police or government could have collabrated with the communists bastards to plant fake evidence to frame him that he did the deals leh.