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Prosecutor orders medical check on Liu Tai-ying

Liu Tai-ying, former chairman of the China Development Industrial Bank, lies on a gurney as he is transferred to a public hospital from a private facility yesterday morning for another medical check to determine whether his jail sentence should be postponed. PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES

A former banker was ordered by a prosecutor yesterday to have a medical check at a public hospital before it could be decided whether he could postpone serving a jail term.

Prosecutor Liu Cheng-wu (劉承武) asked Liu Tai-ying (劉泰英), a former chairman of the China Development Industrial Bank, to check into the Yang Ming branch of Taipei City Hospital to have an ultrasonic scan on his heart and a computerized axis tomograph of his brain.

The prosecutor gave the instructions after visiting Liu Tai-ying at the private Ching Sheng General Clinic, where the former banker was admitted late on Tuesday.

Liu Tai-ying was subpoenaed to report to the prosecutor on Wednesday to begin serving a 22-month jail term handed down by the court for his siphoning off of NT$37 million (US$1.2 million) from two Chinese Nationalist Patry (KMT)-run firms when he was chief of the KMT Business Management Committee in 1998.

Instead of showing up at the prosecutor’s office on Wednesday, Liu Tai-ying sent his son to inform the prosecutor that he had collapsed late on Tuesday after moderate drinking with friends and was unable to begin his sentence.

His son presented a medical report issued by Ching Sheng to back the claim that Liu Tai-ying’s condition was serious and that he should be hospitalized for the time being for observation.

Prosecutor Liu said after visiting Liu Tai-ying at Ching Sheng yesterday that the former banker was suffering from hypertension, but was conscious.

Noting that Liu Tai-ying pleaded illness only after his request to take a postpone serving his sentence was rejected, the prosecutor said he would seek a second opinion on whether the banker could serve his jail term.

Liu has been implicated in a number of criminal cases arising from his service in the KMT and the 22-month sentence was handed down in the first case in which he had exhausted all legal avenues of appeal.
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