Prosecutors yesterday said that they are still trying to contact the actor known as Andy (
The Criminal Investigation Bureau revealed on Friday that two men had been arrested after Andy claimed to have been blackmailed with a VCD that apparently shows him taking drugs and having sex with a woman who was not his wife.
When approached by reporters yesterday afternoon, Taipei District Prosecutors' Office Spokesman Chen Hung-ta (陳宏達) said he hoped that Andy and his wife would come back to Taiwan as soon as possible. He said they would not be able to avoid submitting their hair for analysis.
"If he has his hair cut or shaves his head, then I think the answer will be more than obvious even if we do not test him. However, we can still carry out the test unless he shaves off all the hair on his entire body," Chen said.
According to Chen, the hair check will help investigators determine whether the couple have taken any drugs during the past six months. If they test positive, they could be forced to attend a rehabilitation program lasting anything from two weeks to six months.
"After our rough interrogation of the two suspects, we decided that there are more suspects on the run. We are trying our best to locate and arrest them," said Chao Chung-yueh (趙中岳), spokesman of the Tainan District Prosecutors' Office.
"We need Andy and his wife to help with the investigation. Also, we need to figure out whether they did indeed take drugs, as the two suspects have alleged," he said.
Chao made the statement yesterday after the police had conducted a preliminary interrogation of Tao Tsu-hui (陶自輝) and Pan Ching-tai (潘經太), who, according to police, said that they had filmed Andy and his wife "taking drugs, dancing exotically and having sex" at a private party in December.
Tao and Pan are suspected of making a VCD of the party video and sending it to Andy, who said they threatened to make the VCD public unless he paid them NT$10 million on Feb. 10.
The next day Andy and his wife left for Los Angeles and asked Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Tsai Huang-lang (蔡煌瑯) to help them report the incident to the police.
Police said they discovered the master tape of the video when Tao and Pan were arrested on Thursday.
Chao yesterday still refused to confirm whether the video shows Andy and his wife doing the things Tao and Pan said they did.
"The Tainan District Court has approved our request to detain Tao and Pan. It has been confirmed that the video was shot at a KTV in Taipei City," Chao said.
"At this moment, we are trying to determine whether there are other copies of the video, although the suspects maintain that only one copy had been made," he said.
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