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TAIPEI : Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian's top aide has been detained over his suspected role in alleged money laundering and embezzlement by Chen and his family, a report said Saturday.
Lin Teh-hsun, Chen's long-time aide and ex-director of the presidential office, was taken into custody late Friday after he was named a defendant in the money laundering case, said the Apple Daily.
Lin, already indicted on perjury and forgery charges in a separate embezzlement case, became the third person detained in the high-profile probes of the former first family.
The ex-president, his wife, son, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law and four others have all been named as defendants in the money laundering case.
According to Taiwanese prosecutors, some 21 million US dollars was sent to Swiss bank accounts belonging to Chen's daughter-in-law in 2007 and was used to set up a business registered in the Cayman Islands for suspected money laundering.
The ex-president has admitted his wife wired 20 million US dollars abroad from his past campaign funds but said she did so without his knowledge.
He has denied laundering money and said he was persecuted by the Kuomintang government.
Chen, who left office in May, is already being investigated for allegedly embezzling 14.8 million Taiwan dollars in special expenses while president, and his wife is on trial in the same case.
- AFP/vm
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