Police late last night arrested fugitive businessman Liang Po-hsun (
Liang yesterday told the Central News Agency that he would be arriving in Taiwan at 11pm and would repeat accusations that former Presidential Office deputy secretary-general Chen Che-nan (陳哲男) accepted NT$12 million (US$370,000) to bribe judges -- but actually embezzled the money instead.
"Liang will be arrested and brought to Taipei prison if he arrives in the country tonight [last night]," said Taipei District Prosecutors' Office spokesman Lin Pang-liang (林邦樑) earlier yesterday.
Taipei prosecutors had ordered a deployment of police to await Liang at CKS airport, he added.
Lin said that if Liang offered evidence about any act of bribery, prosecutors would then probe the matter.
Liang, the former chairman of the Hsinchiehchung Construction Company and a board director of the Overseas Chinese Bank, was sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling NT$5.3 billion from the Overseas Chinese Bank, and was sentenced to a further 14 months in prison for forging his construction company's contracts.
Liang fled to China in June 2004.
Last month he made accusations against Chen and said he had decided to return to Taiwan.
He told Taiwanese reporters based in China that Chen received a total of NT$12 million, and that Chen claimed he could buy judges with the funds.
"I then discovered that Chen pocketed the money, but I was found guilty," he told the reporters.
Chen, however, has denied that he received any money from the fugitive businessman.
Liang has said that he and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (
Soong, then Taiwan provincial governor, ordered a tightening of the provincial banking system's line of credit to Liang's construction company in 1997.
Liang has said that he gave Soong NT$80 million during the 1992 legislative election.
Soong has since denied the allegation.
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