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Additional hearing called in Ma Ying-jeou embezzlement case as doubts over prosecution remain |
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21:15, July 23, 2007 |
An additional hearing was held in a Taiwan court on Monday to reexamine whether or not a prosecutor had distorted a testimony given by a key witness involved in the corruption trial of former KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou.
The court reviewed an audio recording on which the entire questioning session of Wu Li-ju, a cashier at the Taipei city government''s secretariat, was recorded, to see if there were any discrepancies between Wu''s verbal statement and the written record compiled by a prosecutor surnamed Hou.
The hearing was held at the request of Ma''s defense lawyers made last week, claiming the prosecutor had recorded Wu''s testimony inaccurately.
Doubts were first raised about the accuracy of the prosecutor''s documents after Wu complained during the July 10 hearing that the written record prepared by the prosecutors when they questioned her on January 25 this year did not include her complete statement.
Ma is charged with misusing more than 11 million Taiwan dollars (330,000 U.S. dollars) in expense funds during his tenure as mayor of Taipei.
Ma resigned as chairman of the KMT, Taiwan''s leading opposition party,after being indicted on Feb. 13, but declared that he would run for the 2008 Taiwan leadership election.
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