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Former Taiwan intelligence head sentenced to 10 years for corruption

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The Taiwan Taipei District Court on Thursday sentenced former head of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau Yeh Sheng-mao to 10 years in prison on corruption charges. Yeh was convicted of corruption, concealing a government file, and leaking confidential information to former President Chen Shui-bian. In addition to the prison sentence, Yeh will also be deprived of civil rights for five years. Lawyers for Yeh plan to appeal. Yeh is the first to be convicted in the many corruption scandals surrounding Chen. Chen was arrested in November on suspicion of embezzling money from the state affairs fund. Chen, the former leader of the now-opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who resigned the presidency in May 2008, has maintained his innocence and has said that the investigation is a political attack by members of the ruling Kuomintang Party. Chen spent eight months in prison twenty-one years ago for defaming Nationalist leaders. In September, he was cleared on more recent defamation charges.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).