China News Service, July 14. According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency", the former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shuzhen were involved in the case of business jet fees.

Legal sources said that because the provisions of the Accounting Law related to the decriminalization of government fees have been amended and implemented, the defendants involved in this crime are expected to be exempted from prosecution.

　　Chen Shui-bian's trial was suspended due to illness and was not within the scope of sentencing.

Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" passed the revision of the "Accounting Law" in the third reading on May 30, decriminalizing official expenses, and it came into effect on June 15.

　　Article 99-1 of Taiwan's "Accounting Act" stipulates that the expenses for official planning and special expenses used by various agencies before December 31, 2006 shall be reported, handled, written off, spent and paid by other relevant personnel. Financial responsibility is deemed to be relieved, and its administrative and civil responsibilities will not be investigated; if criminal responsibility is involved, no penalty will be imposed.

　　The Taiwan High Court stated at the third reading of the "Legislative Yuan" that after the law is promulgated and takes effect, the collegial panel will consider the relevant facts and the application of the law, and try it according to the law.

　　Legal sources pointed out that the defendant Chen Shui-bian's wife Wu Shuzhen, former Taiwan leaders' office director Ma Yongcheng, Lin Dexun, and Chen Zhenhui, then the cashier of Chen Shui-bian's office, were involved in Article 99-1 of the "Accounting Law". Those whose punishments have been abolished by law later, should be notified of a judgment of immunity from prosecution, so they can expect a judgment of immunity from prosecution.

　　According to analysis by legal professionals, there is still a gap between "exemption" and "innocence". Exemption refers to the fact that the defendant still has relevant criminal acts, and is exempted from prosecution because the law has been repealed.

Innocent, mainly after the substantive trial of the court, found that the relevant evidence could not be relied on to generate a conviction of guilt, and in the absence of guilt evidence, the verdict was not guilty.

　　In other words, this case still needs to review the crimes involved by each defendant. If it involves Article 99-1 of the Accounting Law, it will not be convicted and sentenced.

　　The whole case is due to the fact that Taiwan's "High Prosecutor's Office" Criminal Investigation Center and the "Supreme Prosecutor's Office" special investigation team (both have been abolished) successively prosecuted Chen Shui-bian and others in four major cases (the case of business jet fees, the Nangang Exhibition Center case, Longtan land purchase case and money laundering case); after the case was merged and tried in the first, second and third instance and remanded, some cases have been decided, and the rest will be subject to the second instance of the Taiwan High Court.

　　The part that was sent back to the second instance by the "Supreme Court" in Taiwan included Chen Shuibian, Wu Shuzhen, Ma Yongcheng, Lin Dexun, and Chen Zhenhui's business jet fees, Wu Shuzhen, Chen Shuibian's family friend Cai Mingzhe, and Guo Quanqing, the former chairman of Liqi Construction, who were sued in the Nangang Exhibition Center case In the money laundering case, Chen Shuibian, Wu Shuzhen, Chen Zhenhui, Cai Mingzhe, and Guo Quanqing were sued in the money laundering case of official expenses, and Chen Shuibian's son Chen Zhizhong and his daughter-in-law Huang Ruiliang were accused of money laundering.

　　The second instance of the Taiwan High Court has undergone intensive trials. Except for Chen Shui-bian's suspension of the trial and Wu Shuzhen's leave of absence, all the other defendants appeared in court. The whole case was declared closed at the end of April, and the verdict is scheduled for July 15.