In the second instance of the state aircraft fee case, Wu Shuzhen asked for leave, Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang appeared in court

Taiwan’s High Court today heard cases involving state secret fees that have been litigated for more than 15 years, and will conduct a second-instance procedure. Except for former President Chen Shui-bian’s suspension of trial and Wu Shuzhen’s leave, all the other defendants were summoned to appear in court, including Chen Shui-bian’s son Chen Zhizhong and his daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang. to court.

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On the 1st, the Taiwan High Court heard the case of state secret fees and other cases that had been litigated for more than 15 years, and conducted a second-instance procedure. Except for the suspension of the trial by former President Chen Shui-bian and Wu Shuzhen’s leave, all the other defendants were summoned to appear in court, including Chen Shui-bian’s son Chen Zhizhong (front right), Daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang (front left) and others were present in court. (Central News Agency)

The whole case is due to the investigation and investigation of the then-president Chen Shui-bian, Wu Shuzhen and his wife and other people who were suspected of embezzling confidential state funds. Guaranteed criminal immunity, not within the scope of prosecution. After Chen Shui-bian left office, the criminal investigation center was restructured into a special investigation team of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office (which has been abolished) to investigate the part of Chen Shui-bian involved in the case, and tracked down four major cases of the Bian family (the case of state expenses, the case of Nangang Exhibition Center, the purchase of land in Longtan and the case of money laundering). In December 1997, Chen Shuibian, Wu Shuzhen, Chen Zhizhong, Huang Ruiliang and others were prosecuted.

After the related cases have been merged and tried in the first, second and third instance and remanded, some cases have been decided, and the remaining state confidential fee and money laundering cases are currently being held by the Taiwan High Court for the second instance, and the trial judge is Li Shihua.

The parts returned by the Supreme Court for the second instance include: the case involving state secret expenses involving Chen Shui-bian, Wu Shuzhen, Ma Yongcheng, Lin Dexun, and Chen Zhenhui; Sued in the money laundering case of state secret fees, and the money laundering case in which Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang were charged.

In the second instance, all defendants except Chen Shui-bian were summoned today, including Chen Shui-bian’s wife Wu Shuzhen, son Chen Zhizhong, daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang, then Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Ma Yongcheng, then Presidential Office Director Lin Dexun, then Presidential Palace Cashier Chen Zhenhui, Bian’s friend Cai Mingzhe, Qian Liqi Construction Chairman Guo Quanqing. Wu Shuzhen submitted a letter to ask for leave.

(Editor-in-Chief: Zhuang Yanyu)

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