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Former Presidential Cashier: No Southern Front Diplomatic Project Ever Existed
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 2009/03/20
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Former Presidential Cashier: No Southern Front Diplomatic Project Ever Existed
Sources: Taipei newspapers March 20, 2009
Chen Cheng-hui, former cashier and bookkeeper at the Presidential Office, appeared at the Taipei District Court for a hearing in the trial of former President Chen Shui-bian’s corruption and money-laundering cases.
During the hearing, Chen Cheng-hui testified that it had been Chen Shui-bian who had asked her to cook the books of the State Affairs Fund after leaving office over the so-called secret diplomatic projects cases.
“Former President Chen Shui-bian had given me a hand-written note in which he had listed six diplomatic projects, including C case, W case, S case, UN case, J case, L case, and FJ case. He then instructed me to key in the cases and details of the expenditures listed on the note. I just keyed into the computer whatever he had written down. I just did what I was told to do,” said Chen Cheng-hui in cross-examination.
Chen Cheng-hui said that the receipts which had been used to claim the State Affairs Funds before 2005 had actually been destroyed by Lin Teh-hsun, former chef de cabinet to former President Chen and Lin’s secretary Chen Hui-wen.
Chen Cheng-hui said that before she had gone to the Anti-Corruption Center for questioning in 2006, Lin Teh-hsun had told her that some State Affairs Fund receipts could be destroyed. However, Chen Cheng-hui said that she hadn’t followed Lin’s instructions because she thought that the receipts had all been signed by him. Chen Chen-hui said that she then had asked Lin’s secretary to tell Lin that it was his business to destroy all the receipts.
Chen Cheng-hui added that the “Southern Front Diplomatic Project”, which former President Chen claimed to have conducted, had actually been fabricated by Lin Teh-hsun and Tseng Tien-tsu, former Presidential aide. Chen Cheng-hui said that the two of them had asked her to give false testimony to prosecutor Eric Chen at the Anti-Corruption Center (predecessor organization of the SIU).
“Both before and after the questionings at the Anti-Corruption Center, Lin had had meetings with me to instruct me how to answer questions. At that time, I thought that the ‘Southern Front Diplomatic Project’ did exist. Tseng Tien-tsu’s receipts had been provided by Wu Shu-jen ,” admitted Chen Cheng-hui.
Chen Cheng-hui added that it had been Lin Teh-hsun and Tseng Tien-tsu who had asked her to falsely state that the State Affairs Funds had been used in the “Southern Front Diplomatic Project.”
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