Chen's son to be subpoenaed

source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national%20news/2008/08/22/171238/Chen%27s%2Dson.htm

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Prosecutors investigating money laundering allegations against former President Chen Shui-bian have decided they will soon summon as defendants his son, Chen Chih-chung, and daughter-in-law.

Both the junior Chen and his wife Huang Jui-ching failed to appear as witnesses for a session on Aug. 15, one day before the former president's residence was raided, because they had already left together for the U.S. on Aug. 9 with their baby daughter.

The younger Chen was supposed to attend a law school orientation at the University of Virginia on Aug. 17, but he failed to show up and his whereabouts remain a mystery.

Upon landing Aug. 17 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport after a U.S. trip, Huang's mother Wu Li-hua told reporters that both her daughter and son-in-law will return to Taipei this week.
Based on new evidence gathered in recent days, prosecutors now have reason to believe the young couple may not be as innocent as previously thought.

The former president Chen, a lawyer by training, insisted his wife Wu Shu-jen had taken the unilateral action of depositing his unused campaign funds from supporters' political donations into Huang's overseas bank accounts.

Chen said Wu made the wire transfers "absolutely" without his knowledge.
Prosecutors of the special criminal investigation task force under the Supreme Prosecutor Office first thought the junior Chen and his wife could be just innocent victims, and that Huang's bank accounts were used simply as surrogate accounts.

But they discovered although the funds were deposited in Wu's accounts, the president's son was given power of attorney, allowing him to easily use or transfer the money.

They have also found out that the junior Chen made three overseas trips between October and December in 2006 alone, when the former president was being probed for allegedly embezzling from the "state affairs fund" by using other people's invoices.