Mr ex-president now u have to live in jail for remaining life

TAIPEI: Some years ago Chen Shui-bianChen Shui-bian,was the president of Taiwan,having magnificiant powers,luxuries of life and royal style way of his living .But now time has changed ,he is not now king and he did so much corruption during his rule that now court has sentenced jail for him for his remaining life ,But he is saying that all this is to life in jail after a corruption trial that he said was political revenge for his lifelong push to declare independence from China.
But court saying that 59 year old Chen was found guilty of embezzling state funds, laundering money, accepting bribes and committing forgery.
Chen was using his background and position to cause damage to the country. That’s why the court sentenced him to life imprisonment, Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the court shouting, “A-Bian is innocent” and “Release A-Bian”, using Chen’s nickname.

Chen is totally disagree with this decision and saying verdict was “totally unacceptable” and “illegal”, blasting a decision to replace the judges in the middle of the trial. “This is obviously a political persecution targeting me. life sentence is automatically appealed. His family is also involving with this corruption scandle as

his son Chen Chih-chung got a prison term of two and a half years for money laundering, while daughter-in-law Huang Jui-ching received a suspended sentence for the same charge. “We are very disappointed,” Former president saying that the verdicts marked the climax of a court drama that has gripped and divided the island’s 23 million people for months.

Chen, who also received a fine of 200 million Taiwan dollars (6.1 million US dollars), had blasted the trial as a vendetta triggered by his eight years in power when he was pursuing independence from China. Taiwan has been governed separately from China since 1949, but Beijing still considers the island as part of its territory and has vowed to take it back, by force if necessary. Chen has said that his Beijing-friendly successor Ma Ying-jeouMa Ying-jeou was behind the alleged witch-hunt, a charge denied by Ma. “The outcome is likely to heighten confrontation between the two opposing camps in the short term,” said Liao Da-chi, a political scientist at National Sun Yat-sen University.
The ex-president’s refusal to attend the verdict was a protest against what he considered an “illegal and invalid” ruling, his former lawyer Cheng Wen-lung told AFP earlier.Chen had also said his wife wired $20 million abroad from campaign funds but that she did so without his knowledge.