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Former Judicial Yuan chief cleared of graft suspicions

The Supreme Prosecutors Office announced yesterday that it would not indict former Judicial Yuan president Weng Yueh-sheng (翁岳生) over use of his special allowance fund.

Chen Yun-nan (陳雲南), a spokesman for the office's special investigation panel, told a press conference yesterday afternoon that "prosecutors did not find anything suspicious in Weng's use of his special allowance fund during his time at the Judicial Yuan."

Weng received NT$12,619,000 (US$390,000) in monthly discretionary funds between February 1999 and August last year but prosecutors had determined he had not misused it, Chen said.

Prosecutors who examined the receipts Weng submitted for funds requiring accounting oversight determined that Weng had not used personal receipts to seek reimbursement, Chen said.

The Judicial Yuan said yesterday that it respected the investigation's findings.

"Prosecutors are still probing 213 officials' use of their special affairs funds," Chen said.

The investigations followed the high-profile probe into President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) last year over the alleged misuse of the "state affairs fund."

Wu was indicted last November for misappropriating money from a secret government fund set aside for diplomatic missions or initiatives. She has pleaded innocent.

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was indicted in February on charges of misusing his Taipei mayoral special allowance fund but was found not guilty in his first trial.

Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), National Security Council Secretary-General Mark Chen (陳唐山) and Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Yu Shyi-kun have also been indicted, but their cases have not come to trial.
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