The Earth Times
6 May 2008
Taipei - A Taiwan court on Tuesday ordered the detention of a Singaporean man on suspicion of plotting to embezzle 30 million US dollars of government funds. The Taipei District Court ordered negotiator Wu Shih-tsai detained after questioning him over his role in a 2006 diplomatic scandal in which Taiwan was trying to get the Pacific island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to recognize Taiwan in exchange for 30 million US dollars in aid.
To negotiate the deal, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry asked Wu and Taiwanese citizen Ching Chi-ju owing to their purported good ties with PNG politicians.
Wu insisted he has not received a penny from Taiwan, but prosecutors named him as Ching's accomplice and ordered him detained incommunicado Tuesday night.
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