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She said that "part of" Liu's statements to prosecutors could be true.
"Both Liu and I testified under oath during prosecutors' interrogations. As for the money's whereabouts, I believed that Liu was telling the truth when he said he did not receive any money from me at all," Su said.
Su arrived at the Taipei District Court yesterday for a hearing for the scandal and made her remarks before entering the courtroom.
According to Su, a letter that she wrote to the Presidential Office back in 1995 was an important hint that Liu was "partially" telling the truth during the interrogations.
"Before I asked him for help, I initially wrote a letter to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) for help on the financial problems of my company when I was still then-vice president of Zanadau," said Su.
"Liu told the same story to prosecutors and said that Lee did forward the letter to him. But he could not remember where the letter is now, Su said.
In addition, prosecutors did not discover any bank transactions of [the suspicious] amount from Liu's bank accounts. I believe that Liu would not lie to prosecutors."
Ever since Su made the entire scandal public by organizing a press conference at the Legislative Yuan on Sept. 16 last year, she insisted that she has paid a total of NT$1.06 billion kickback to Lawson Corp (正暐) and President Lee Ming-che (李明哲), who is a close friend of Liu's, in return of Liu's promise to help secure bank financing.
Lee Ming-che told Su that he will forward the money to Liu but Su never knew whether Liu did receive the money or not, she said.
Su never received the alleged financing.
In addition, Su insisted that China Development Industrial Asset Management Corp Chairman Benny Hu (胡定吾) was also involved.
"I paid Hu very generous commissions between 1996 and 1998 regarding the same request to Lee Ming-che and Liu, since he worked very closely with Liu," she said.
The money to him was separate commissions from the money to Lee Ming-che and Liu," Su said.
Su never said exactly how much she paid Hu.
However, she said that she had already handed in related evidence of Hu's involvement to prosecutors but she did not understand why Hu had not been indicted.
"I was so surprised that he was not charged with anything at all. This is ridiculous," she said.
"But I still have faith in our judicial system and believe that he will be nailed sooner or later."
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