Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and his wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), will begin their prison sentences soon, as the conviction documents were sent to the Supreme Prosecutors Office yesterday, a senior judicial official said.
The former first couple has been sentenced to a total of 19 years behind bars for accepting bribes. The convictions were made in two high profile cases involving a land deal in Lungtan (龍潭), Taoyuan County, and the appointment of a chairperson of the Taipei 101 building.
Hung Tai-wen (洪泰文), chief of staff of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, said the verdicts, more than 200 pages in total, would be forwarded to the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, which is responsible for executing the jail sentences.
Chen, who is being held at the Taipei Detention Center, will be moved to the Taipei Prison in Gueishan Township (龜山) in Taoyuan County.
The documents on Wu’s conviction will be sent to the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office in southern Taiwan, which will see to it that her jail sentences begin from this month.
As Wu is wheelchair-bound and in poor health, judicial authorities will decide at which prison in the Kaohsiung area she should be confined or whether to grant her probation on medical grounds.
The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday that it will revoke the dependent-based residence permit of a Chinese social media influencer who reportedly “openly advocated for [China’s] unification through military force” with Taiwan. The Chinese national, identified by her surname Liu (劉), will have her residence permit revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the “Measures for the permission of family- based residence, long-term residence and settlement of people from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area,” the NIA said in a news release. The agency explained it received reports that Liu made “unifying Taiwan through military force” statements on her online
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