Fugitive repatriated back to Taiwan from China

Escorted by police, Pai Hung-sen, a former speaker of the Changhua County Council, was handcuffed as he got off a ship carrying him to Kinmen from China's coastal city of Xiamen.

Pai looked tired and remained tight-lipped. He was then flown to Taipei.

He managed to escape from a hospital in Taichung where he was being treated under police custody on Dec. 4, and then fled to Xiamen.

He was found guilty of corruption for using government money for wining and dining. The Supreme Court commuted his original four-year sentence to three years and 10 months on March 4, the day when news came that he had been arrested in Xiamen. Pai was repatriated with two others. One of them is his brother-in-law, Luo Tao-chien, who was also sentenced in the same corruption case.

The other is Yang Hao-hsiung, who allegedly helped Pai flee Taiwan, police said.

Police officers from Taiwan were supposed to escort the three fugitives from Xiamen to Kinmen in the morning. But the foggy weather delayed the repatriation to the afternoon.

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