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Kelly Chan

Chen Shui-bian's daughter Chen Hsing-yu - the only member of the former Taiwanese president's immediate family not previously facing criminal charges over his embezzlement and corruption case - was charged with perjury yesterday,  as were her brother and her husband.
Ms Chen, her husband Chao Chien-ming and her brother Chen Chih-chung had been charged with giving false evidence because their testimonies, taken separately, were not consistent with one another, the Central News Agency  reported.
Also charged with giving false evidence was Diana Chen, former director of Taipei 101,  the signature skyscraper in Taiwan. Last month, she was accused of giving the former president and his wife, Wu Shu-chen,  NT$10 million (HK$2.38 million) in bribes in April 2004.
Chen Yun-nan, spokesman for the Special Investigation Task Force  under the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, said he would announce the details of the latest charges later, but others in the team confirmed that the four were listed as defendants after a meeting last month. 
They will be taken to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office. 
Chen Hsing-yu took a qualification examination to become a practising dentist in New York in February.
Lee Chun-yee  - a legislator from the Democratic Progressive Party,  to which the former president belonged - claimed the  taskforce had charged  Chen Hsing-yu without evidence, and it was a 'one-step-further attack' on the family, which would cause a bigger response in Taiwan, according to the The Liberty Times, a newspaper on the island. 
There were reports Chen Hsing-yu was prevented from leaving Taiwan because she would be charged with a crime. Legislator Chou Yi  of the governing Kuomintang  told Radio Taiwan International that the  taskforce should have acted sooner to limit her right to travel outside the island and that the ban had come too late. 
Chen Shui-bian has been in custody at the Taipei Detention Centre since December. He and Wu have been charged with embezzling NT$104 million in special state funds, taking NT$498 million in bribes and laundering at least US$37 million abroad. 
Chen Shui-bian, a pro-independence politician who was Taiwan's president from 2000 to  last year, pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in February and said he was a political tool that  President Ma Ying-jeou, of the  KMT, was using to please  Beijing. 
Fourteen people have been charged in connection with the case, 11 of whom have admitted a variety of offences. Wu has already confessed to money-laundering.



Chen Shui-bian's daughter faces her first charge: perjury