The Nicaraguan State Accounts Inspector's Office accused President Enrique Bolanos of illegally receiving a 30,000-US-dollar check from a bank of China's Taiwan, the local press reported Thursday.

Bolanos got the money on June 18, 2001, when he was a presidential candidate for the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, the Nicaraguan daily El Nuevo Diario quoted the office as saying.

According to the office, an audit of the president's campaign expenditure found that the money came from Land Bank of Chinese Taipei, and the check was deposited on June 26, 2001, in the name of Bolanos in Caley Dagnall Bank in Managua.

On Oct. 12, the State Accounts Inspector's Office requested the congress to dismiss the president because he refused to disclose the sources of funding for his presidential campaign in 2001.

Under the Nicaraguan Electoral Law, "the political parties or political-party alliances cannot directly or indirectly accept or receive private anonymous contributions."

The audit also revealed that 490,000 dollars from the Nicaraguan Democratic Foundation, created by former President Arnoldo Aleman, currently in prison, also came into Bolanos' account in Caley Dagnall Bank,

Aleman was charged with money laundering, embezzlement, illicit association and electoral offenses.

According to other reports, Aleman is now under investigation for charges that he received 1.5 million dollars from several Taiwan companies through a Panama-based foundation.