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Taiwan's Chen: I broke the law

By DEBBY WU, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, August 14, 2008
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(08-14) 04:25 PDT TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) --

Taiwan's former president admitted Thursday that he broke the law by not truthfully declaring campaign donations he received, and said that his wife sent an unspecified amount of money abroad.

Chen Shui-bian's statement followed a lawmaker's allegations earlier in the day that Chen's son and daughter-in-law moved $31 million to Switzerland in 2007. Hung Hsiu-chu of the ruling Nationalists said the money was then forwarded to the Cayman Islands.

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday that Swiss authorities had asked the island to cooperate in an unspecified case.

"We have passed the Swiss request to relevant agencies," Foreign Ministry spokesman Henry Chen said.

Speaking to reporters in Taipei, Chen admitted that he had erred by not fully disclosing donations he received in four political campaigns beginning in 1994, including his two successful bids for the presidency in 2000 and 2004.

"I did something not allowed by the law," he said.

Chen also said his wife sent an undisclosed amount of money to an unspecified foreign location, but insisted that the funds would be used to underwrite "Taiwanese diplomatic work" he would conduct in his post-presidential career.

"At the beginning of this year, my wife told me she wired money overseas left from previous campaigns," he said. "She didn't let me know beforehand."

In a written statement, Hung said that earlier this year Swiss federal prosecutors ordered the seizure of all papers related to the bank accounts of Chen's daughter-in-law, Huang Jui-ching.

Hung said that in early 2007, $21 million was wired to two accounts Huang controlled in Switzerland, before being moved to the Cayman Islands. Later in the year, an additional $10 million was moved to the Islands from a Swiss account controlled by Chen's son, Chen Chih-chung.

Chen left the presidency in May 2008, two months after the candidate of his Democratic Progressive Party was soundly beaten in the presidential poll by the then opposition Nationalists.

A major factor in the DPP's defeat was a series of high profile corruption cases involving Chen, his immediate family and inner circle.


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TAIWAN: Chen denies tabloid report about money laundering

'Next' magazine reports that money remitted to the United States were from the former president and his wife's bank accounts and from dummy accounts used for stock trading

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

TAIPEI, Taiwan --- Former President Chen Shui-bian yesterday dismissed a report alleging that he had remitted NT$300 million out of Taiwan in an act of money laundering.

Chen's lawyer Lee Sheng-chen cited the former president describing the money laundering allegations in the Next magazine report as being "totally unfounded."

Lee said Chen had yet to instruct whether any legal actions would be taken against the magazine over the report.

The magazine, in its latest issue published yesterday, claimed that Chen in 2006 remitted the NT$300 million to the United States via bank accounts belonging to his daughter-in-law and her family.

The report cited high-level sources with prosecutors as revealing that the money were from the bank accounts of Chen and his wife, Wu Shu-chen, and several dummy accounts that the former first lady had used for stock trading.

Chen and his wife withdrew the money from the accounts shortly after a series of corruption scandals erupted implicating the former first family in 2006, the report claimed.

The remittance of the money out of Taiwan took place around the time when their son, Chen Chih-chung, flew alone to the United States, it added.

Investigators have also traced a total of almost NT$1 billion that the Chen family had transferred overseas, it said.

The magazine claimed that the investigators obtained the information through an international anti-money laundering alliance.

A former chief aide of Chen's, Lin Teh-hsun, had previously asked if the former president had remitted such large sums of money out of Taiwan after learning that investigators were taking a look into the matter, the report said.

Chen gave Lin a telling silent response, it said.

But Chen's lawyer said the former president and his wife could not have hidden their money overseas as they had declared all their assets with the government watchdog Control Yuan.

Lin reacted to the Next report by denying that he had ever asked the former president concerning the alleged sums, describing the report as "pure fabrication."

Chen is being investigated for allegedly embezzling the presidential state affairs expense account, for which his wife has already been indicted.

But both have denied the charges, with the president claiming that the allegedly misused money from state affairs expense account had been spent on secret diplomatic missions.
 

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扁:短報選舉結餘 妻匯海外
自由 更新日期:2008/08/15 04:09

扁幕僚:累計匯六億餘元

〔記者蘇永耀、施曉光/台北報導〕陳水扁前總統昨日首度承認,妻子吳淑珍曾將部分選舉結餘款匯至海外,今年初才向他坦承,他事先並不知情,知道後決定移做國際外交與公共用途。阿扁幕僚之後補充說,相關款項累計約兩千萬美元(合台幣六億餘元),若干經費已用於涉外事務。

陳水扁也公開向國人道歉,表示從市長到總統大選四次選舉有競選經費申報不實之事,「曾經做了法律所不許可的事」。

坦承做了法律不許可的事

前天出版的壹週刊爆料扁珍利用媳婦黃睿靚及黃家人的帳戶匯款海外,立委洪秀柱昨又召開記者會,質疑黃睿靚去年二月在瑞士開設兩個海外帳戶已遭瑞士聯邦檢察署查封,她出示一份今年六月瑞士聯邦司法部的來函,請求我政府提供刑事案件司法協助的公文,指扁家族透過黃睿靚在瑞士設立兩個帳戶,以及在國外成立公司進行洗錢,流動金額約新台幣九億多元。

稱今年初吳淑珍才告訴他

在洪秀柱記者會後,陳前總統決定出來說明,他在律師李勝琛陪同下首度在個人辦公室召開記者會,但以不宜久坐為由,未接受媒體提問即離去。

陳水扁說,幾次選舉他不曾接觸選舉經費,選舉結束如有剩餘也都由吳淑珍掌管。今年初吳淑珍首度向他坦承,部分選舉剩餘款匯往海外,沒讓他知道。

他說,吳淑珍指這是預留總統卸任後做公共之用,但他知道後馬上決定全移做台灣國際外交工作及其他公共用途。

他強調,有人說這是國務機要費匯往海外,甚至是所謂巴紐案、華揚史威靈案等,都絕非事實。國務機要費他全部可以交代,既無犯意,也無犯行;至於巴紐案、華揚史威靈案,他分別作證過,絕對清白沒問題。

強調皆與國務費案等無關

陳水扁認為,二○○四年三月三十一日「政治獻金法」施行前,競選經費申報法制不備,候選人申報不實乃眾所周知之事,這是很多政黨候選人最大困擾。但良心告訴他,不能再繼續騙自己、騙別人,他決定選擇坦白。

阿扁並表明,從政以來,個人不貪不取,唯一拿過別人的錢,就是為了選舉必須籌措經費。為拚選舉、爭取選票,他全力以赴,「完全沒有時間去管鈔票」。選舉結束如有剩餘,都由吳淑珍掌管。

陳水扁強調,這些捐款不是一己所有,必須用之於公。尤其民進黨無黨產,亦無黨營事業;選舉剩餘款除了投注下次選舉資金,另外,當他以黨主席或從政黨員身分,面對不公平的政黨競爭,必須將選舉剩餘款輔選黨所提名的候選人。

對目前海外帳戶情形,陳水扁幕僚表示,由於是吳淑珍經手,加上夫人自己也說記不清楚,因此陳前總統確實不知具體狀況。但這一切都可接受公評,相關情況檢調都可以去查清楚。

對於陳水扁在記者會的說法,洪秀柱說,如果真是光明正大把錢轉匯國外,為什麼要成立公司?還把責任推給老婆,「算是男人嗎?」

至於黃睿靚瑞士帳戶資金是否是選舉剩餘款或與其他弊案有關?洪秀柱表示「很難說」,非她能力範圍可以判斷。
 
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