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Chen Shui-bian corruption charges. Chen Shui-bian, former President of the Republic of China, stepped down on May 20, 2008, the same day that Ma Ying-jeou took office as the new President of the Republic of China. [1] About an hour after he left the Presidential Office Building, as a former President of the Republic of China and no longer ...
Sep 11, 2009 · Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies. Fri 11 Sep 2009 06.30 EDT. A Taiwanese court today sentenced former president Chen Shui-bian to life in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. The ...
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Jul 16, 2022 · The High Court yesterday acquitted former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) of charges related to his personal use of state funds following a recent change to the Accounting Act (會計法), while his wife and son were sentenced on bribery charges. In its second retrial ruling, the High Court dismissed all charges against Chen, his wife, Wu ...
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Nov 12, 2008 · Nov. 11, 2008. SHANGHAI Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan and an ardent advocate of continued independence for the island, was detained by the police there late Tuesday after ...
Chen Shui-bian ( Chinese: 陳水扁; Wade–Giles: Chen Shü’i-bian; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chúi-píⁿ; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China ( Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which ended the ...
Jul 7, 2016 · The Department of Justice announced today that it is returning approximately $1.5 million to Taiwan, the proceeds of the sale of a forfeited New York condominium and a Virginia residence that the United States alleged in its complaint were purchased with the proceeds of bribes paid to the family of Taiwan’s former President Chen Shui-Bian.
Sep 12, 2009 · (Oct. 5, 2009) On September 11, 2009, Taiwan's former President, Chen Shui-bian, and his wife, Wu Shu-jen, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Taipei District Court, in a 1,415-page verdict (more than half of which comprises appended tables of data). Chen is Taiwan's first former president to be indicted and convicted of crimes.
