The Cabinet yesterday increased its reward for information leading to the arrest of the gunman in the assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian (
"The Executive Yuan will pay a total of NT$50 million to whomever provides information that leads to an arrest of the suspect," said Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung (
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
The Cabinet's announcement increases the total amount of reward from NT$23 million to NT$63 million. In addition to the Cabinet's offer, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-People First Party (PFP) alliance has offered NT$10 million and the Tainan City Government has offered NT$3 million.
While law enforcement officers continue to try to identify the shooter, State Public Prosecutor-General Lu Jen-fa (
That task force consists of three American and two Taiwanese forensic scientists.
Its members are Lee; Shih Tai-ping (石台平), the former director of the National Police Administration's Criminal Investigation Bureau's forensic medicine department; Lin Mao-hsiung (林茂雄) director of the Central Police University's department of forensic science; senior forensic scientist Dr. Cyril Wecht; trajectory analyst Michael Haag and crime-scene-identification analyst Timothy Palmbach.
Lu said that Lee will provide professional analysis of the evidence but he will not get involved in the investigation.
Lu also said that he could not guarantee that Lee will make public the results of his team's analysis.
"He may or may not announce the results of their research. He is fully authorized to make the decision and we will respect that as well," Lu said.
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