Banciao District prosecutors said yesterday they would assess the physical condition of Tainan County Council Speaker Wu Chien-bao (吳健保) before deciding when to summon him for questioning about his alleged involvement in baseball game-fixing.
Wu, who has been listed as a defendant in the case, has been hospitalized at Chi Mei Medical Center in Tainan since fainting last Friday. Rumors that he faked his illness spread because he checked into the hospital just one day after receiving a court summons to appear for questioning.
Prosecutors said they have visited Wu in the hospital and are assessing whether he is physically fit to answer the summons. In addition, the Tainan County Council has scheduled extra sessions, so Wu could not be summoned for questioning when the council is in session, they said.
Wu was indicted for match fixing in August 2008.
Prosecutors allege that Wu ran an illegal gambling business, beginning in 2005, that took bets on professional baseball games.
He allegedly paid former Chinatrust Whales players Tseng Han-chou (曾漢州), Cheng Chang-ming (鄭昌明), Chi Chun-lin (紀俊麟), Chen Chien-wei (陳健偉) and Huang Kwei-yu (黃貴裕) to fix the games in April and May of 2005.
Prosecutors said that their investigation into the recent game-fixing scandals involving the “Windshield Wipers” ring headed by Tsai Cheng-yi (蔡政宜), who has been accused of bribing professional players to throw ball games, led them to Wu.
Prosecutors want to question Wu to see if there is any link to the Windshiled Wipers’ activities.
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