[Chen Shui-bian's son was sure to go to prison, listening to his mother's instructions to launder money overseas, Wu Shuzhen escaped]
After the DPP forcibly amended the law in the legislature to eliminate the crime, Chen Shui-bian and seven others were sentenced to 10 months in prison, and his wife Wu Shuzhen was sentenced to two years in prison for the money laundering crime in the Nangang Exhibition Center case in the second instance, and his son Chen Zhizhong was fined one year and fined NT$1.5 million; daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment and NT$1 million and pronounced a four-year suspended sentence.
Taiwan's "Supreme Court" on April 26 revoked Wu Shuzhen's guilt and remanded for retrial, but rejected Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang's appeals, sentenced Chen Zhizhong to one year in prison, and notified the prosecutor to activate the escape prevention mechanism. The corruption case of the Bian family can be regarded as having the final result, except for Bian Zi Chen Zhizhong, everyone else escaped prison.
According to Taiwan media reports, Chen Shui-bian's wife Wu Shuzhen was worried that the criminal proceeds of the Longtan land purchase fraud case and the Nangang Exhibition Hall case would be discovered, and instructed her son Chen Zhizhong and daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang to open overseas accounts in the name of a code name or a paper holding company, and asked Wu Shuzhen's brother Wu Jingmao to transfer the criminal proceeds of the two cases to money laundering.
On December 21, 2006, accompanied by her husband Chen Zhizhong, daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang opened two accounts with Swiss Merrill Lynch, and Wu Jingmao remitted the criminal proceeds of the Longtan land purchase case and the Nangang Exhibition Hall case to account 1 in the next year, according to Wu Shuzhen's instructions; Chen Zhizhong then transferred US$10 million from Account 1 to Account 2.
Huang Ruiliang set up a paper trust company in the Cayman Islands in the name of Baochang Company, opened two accounts with code names, and remitted the proceeds of the crime of the two cases to the account of Baochang Company with Chen Zhizhong; Chen Zhizhong also opened two accounts through a company established by an overseas bank, and then transferred the criminal proceeds from the Longtan land purchase case and the Nangang Exhibition Hall case in the account of Baochang Company to the company's account.
Later, due to the frequent flow of huge amounts of funds in the above-mentioned overseas accounts in a short period of time, which attracted the attention of the Cayman Islands Financial Intelligence Center, and Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang could not reasonably explain, after the notification, the Swiss Federal Public Prosecutor's Office determined that there was a suspicion of money laundering, and on January 9, 2008, it seized and froze the account assets of two paper trust companies, totaling more than 22.42 million US dollars, and applied to the Taiwan procuratorate for judicial assistance, so that the facts of the case were exposed.
The second instance held that although Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang denied the crime during the trial, Wu Shuzhen had already been sentenced to bribery in the Longtan land purchase case and the Nangang Exhibition Hall case for profit, and Chen Zhizhong and Huang Ruiliang had also confessed to breaking the law, and the two lied to the bank personnel that the funds were given by Huang Ruiliang's father, and they were related to Bian Zhen, so they found that the source of the funds was the proceeds of major crimes, and sentenced Chen Zhizhong to one year's imprisonment and Huang Ruiliang to a suspended sentence according to the crime of money laundering.
On June 11, 2010, the Taiwan High People's Court pronounced a second-instance verdict that Chen Shui-bian was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, fined NT$170 million, deprived of public power for 10 years, and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of NT$200 million, and deprived of public power for 10 years.
Chen Shui-bian was released on medical parole with the support of the Democratic Progressive Party, Wu Shuzhen even issued a medical certificate that she did not have to go to jail because of illness, and now her daughter-in-law does not need to go to jail because of her suspended sentence, and Bian Zi Chen Zhizhong can be released after only one year in prison, which shows that the results of the handling of the corruption case of the Bian family have not really satisfied the Taiwan people.
