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Former officials
found not guilty
By Rich Chang / Staff Reporter
Former vice president Annette Lu (§f¨q½¬) and former Presidential Office
secretary-general Yu Shyi-kun (´å¿ü堃) were found not guilty by the Taipei District
Court yesterday of using fraudulent receipts to claim state affairs funds during
their stint in the Presidential Office.
The Taipei District Court said that given their positions in the government, Lu
and Yu were busy with public affairs and left using receipts to claim fund
reimbursements to their aides.
No evidence had been provided that showed Lu and Yu knew about reimbursements
from the fund, the court said.
Meanwhile, in a separate case in which Lu, Yu and former minister of foreign
affairs Mark Chen (³¯ð¤s) were charged with using fraudulent receipts to claim
special allowance funds, the court yesterday also found them not guilty.
The district court said that because the legislature last year approved a law
under which officials cannot be prosecuted for suspicious reimbursements from
special allowance funds that took place before Dec. 31, 2006, the charges
against the three had been dropped.
However, the court did find four of Lu¡¦s aides and two of Yu¡¦s aides guilty of
forgery. The six were granted probation.
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