Taipei police yesterday said that Kao Chun-chun (
Kao, the 19-year-old daughter of Kuo Yu-ling (
To clarify questions regarding the scandal, Prosecutor Lin Jinn-tsun (林錦村) had summoned her repeatedly since Jan. 5 but she never showed up or contacted investigators.
Investigators arrived at her friend's Shihlin apartment, where she had been hiding for eight days, in the early morning last Saturday, arrested her and took three friends of hers at the scene back to the police station for further questioning.
After being questioned, Kao was transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office and later detained. The three female friends were released.
A senior police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, from the Criminal Investigation Department of the city's police headquarters said that Kao seemed like she was trying to hide something during their interviews with her.
He also said that the black bag which Kao retrieved from a security-deposit box at the Land Bank of Taiwan's Shihlin Branch was discovered at Kao's Shihlin apartment. However, there was nothing in the bag when the police found it.
According to police and the tapes from the bank's security camera, Kao arrived at the bank with an unidentified female on Oct. 26 to open a security-deposit box and took away a black bag from the box when they left.
"Those three friends of hers were confirmed as former high school classmates," said the senior officer. "One of them is the one who accompanied Kao to the bank on Oct. 26. She admitted to us that the black bag Kao retrieved from the security-deposit box was pretty heavy and it looked as though there were many things in it.
"We strongly suspect that the bag contained the master copy of the VCD, the hidden camera which was used by Kuo or other related evidence which Kao might be helping to destroy."
"Also," he continued, "these three girls told us that Kao had played the sex VCD on the computer while she was staying there over the past few days. However, she told us that she never watched the VCD and barely knows anything about it.
"Obviously, she did not tell the truth."
Lin, accompanied by the police, brought Kao to search for more evidence at several locations in the Shihlin area again yesterday afternoon.
Investigators discovered a video tape and a few newspaper clips of the scandal when they went back to her friend's place where she was hiding and was arrested. However, Lin did not say whether the video tape concerned the scandal or not.
"Our investigation is not over yet," said Lin. "There will be more raids on related locations by investigators in the near future, since looking for the master copy of the VCD is currently our top priority."
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