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Chen Family’s Swiss Bank Accounts, China Times, August 15, 2008.
6. News Staff, Chen’s Request to Take out Deposits from Vault Rejected, China
7. Judge Norman K. Moon, Memorandum Opinion, U.S. District Court for the
9. Ku Liang-chieh, Chen Rejects SID Reasons for Extending His Detention, China
10. Ku Liang-chieh and Yang Shu-mei, Chen’s Detention Extended by Two More
12. Shelly Huang, Supreme Court Rejects Chen Appeal against Detention, Taipei
13. Taiwan May Change Rules amid Chen Detention Controversy, AFP, February
23, 2010.
14. Taiwan Changes Detention Rules amid Chen Controversy, AFP, April 23, 2010.
16. Jimmy Chuang, Chen Should Be Released during Appeal: Ma’s Mentor, Taipei
2008.
18. Lan Kai-cheng, Taipei District Court Suspends Trial of Chen’s Document-
Seizing Case Over Health Concerns, United Daily News, December 21, 2013.
19. Lin Chi-han and Tsai Meng-yu, Court Grants Chen’s Request to Suspend
Hearings on His Role in Embezzlement Case, United Daily News, April 22,
2016.
21. An Overview of Legal Cases Involving Former President Chen Shui-bian and
23. Su Wei-rong, High Court Clears Chen Shui-bian of Inciting False Testimony,
24. Lin Wei-xin, Supreme Court Overrules High Court’s Acquittal of Perjury
25. Lan Kai-cheng, District Court Rules Suspension of Hearings on Chen’s Case of
21, 2013.
26. Wang Ji-yu and Kou Liang-chieh, Appropriation of Public Funds for Private
20, 2006.
28. “A million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Shui-bian Must Step
30. Richard Chang, Chen Shui-bian Found not Guilty in Bribery Trial, Taipei
32. Both Ma Wei-chien and Tu Li-ping pleaded guilty in court in February 2010
to help the former first family launder the money they helped move from
33. Ku Liang-chieh, Wang Ji-you and Chen Chih-hsien, Chen Shui-bian Employs
34. Ma Yung-cheng was convicted by the Taiwan High Court of conspiring with
the former first couple to take bribes and was sentenced to eight years in
prison.
35. Wang Ji-you, Mrs. Chen Shui-bian Admits to Having Taken NT$200 Million
36. Former Taiwanese First Lady Accepts a US$6 Million Bribe to Influence Her
38. Richard Andoh, Swiss bank Wegelin to Close after U.S. Tax Evasion Fine, RAK
Chapter 3: How the Chen Family Skillfully Moves Ill-Gained Funds across National
Borders
crime. The allegations were made based on a report filed by the Federal
Group.
was issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland with the
Luc Leimgruber.
4. Probe into Taiwan Ex-President Leads to Singapore, AFP, August 21, 2008.
6. The expert was widely reported in the local media to be a senior financial
advisor from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the United States, who flew
into Taipei in late December 2008 to advise the Chen family on ways to
relocate its massive deposits in Singapore. Chen Shui-bian's son Chen Chih-
chung arranged the Taipei trip for the unidentified Merrill Lynch officer
during a brief visit to New York. But the younger Chen denied he had made
the arrangement during court hearings on his role in the money laundering
case.
First, Chen Shui-bian's DPP party had just lost the 12 January 2008 legislative
presidential election was due in two months in March, but opinion polls had
since the opening of the year continued to show the KMT's Ma Ying-jeou
well ahead of DPP candidate Frank Hsieh. It was against such a background
that Yeh, in his words, "had completely forgotten to act on the Cayman
intelligence report."
8. For some reason, an investigation into the Jersey case was launched
belatedly in 2011 only at the request of the Taiwan High Court, not on the
initiative by prosecutors.
11. The claimed use for the controversial bank account of US$1.9 million varied
in media reports. Some news reports also quoted Chen Shui-bian as saying
that the said amount of money was meant for use by him to promote
13. Wegelin was forced to shut its doors permanently in 2013 after pleading
guilty to a U.S. indictment charging the bank with helping American citizens
14. Liu Chun-koo, Mrs. Chen Shui-bian Urges Tu Li-ping not to Disclose the Origin
of NT$540 Million Wired abroad, United Daily News, December 19, 2008.
15. Wang Wen-ling, Chen Shui-bian Confesses the Amounts of Money Hidden at
Cathay United Bank at One Time Ran Much Higher than NT$700 Million,
16. Ku Liang-chieh and Wang Chih-yu, Mrs. Chen Shui-bian Asks Wu Ching-mou
17. The information about how Ma Wei-chien helped Mrs. Chen Shui-bian wired
the NT$540 million to Asian Piston and then to the Wegelin bank of
20. In Taiwan, forfeiture of assets can only be carried until court procedure end,
21. Under U.S. law, parties that have provided assistance to locate assets
obtained with illegal funds can ask to share the proceeds from the sale of
such properties.
22. ROC Thanks the U.S. for Help over Chen Shui-bian Alleged Bribery Case,
24. Judge Norman K. Moon, Memorandum Opinion, Civil Action No. 3:10-0037
in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia--
Charlottesville Division.
25. News Desk, Former U.S. Officials Shed Light on Ex-Taiwan President’s Money
26. Michael Hudson, Inot Stanescu and Samuel Adler-Bell, Hidden in Plain Sight:
15, 1998.
2. Lien Chan was born in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, but was raised
and educated in Taiwan. He spent all of his years teaching and serving
3. James Soong was born in Xiangtan, Hunan province, China. He and his
public service.
5, 2009.
10. Ko Shu-ling, Facing a Violent Past, Taipei Times, February 28, 2003.
11. Stefan Fleischauer is the author of the “28 February 1947 Uprising” in
13. Shih Cheng-feng, Taiwanese Identity and the Memories of 228: A Case
14. Nicholas D. Kristof, Taipei Journal; the Honor of 228: Taiwan Rips
Open the Past, The New York Times, published April 3, 1992.
17. Craig A. Smith, Taiwan’s 228 Incident and the Politics of Placing
18. Editorial, March Election May Have a Vital Impact on Beijing Ties,
19. Editorial, Chen Clarifies His Agenda for a Taiwan Nation, China Post,
October 8, 2003.
25. Fiona Lu, Date Set for Review of Referendum Law, Taipei Times,
26. Charles Synder, U.S. Warns China not to Use Force against Taiwan,