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	Jim Wirken, lawyer of former director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City Jacqueline Liu (劉姍姍), explains to the media the final sentence a U.S. court handed down on Liu's fraud in foreign labor case, yesterday. Liu has paid US$80,044 in restitution for the victims, and will be deported back to Taiwan (CNA) Enlarge Photo

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Prosecutors to investigate fraud by diplomat

TAIPEI -- A Taiwanese diplomat in the United States who pleaded guilty in a federal case of fraud in foreign labor contracting will be subject to a criminal investigation when she returns to Taiwan, officials said Saturday.

Deputy Minister of Justice Wu Chen-huan said prosecutors will start investigations into the case immediately after Jacqueline Liu, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, returns to Taiwan.

Liu, 64, was arrested by the FBI on Nov. 10, 2011 on charges of mistreating two Filipina housekeepers, one of whom was working for her last year and the other who was in Liu's employ from 2009 to 2010.

Liu was sentenced Friday to the time she had already served, ordered to pay US$80,044 in restitution to the two women and was given a deportation order, after she entered a plea bargain on Nov. 18.

However, Taiwan prosecutors said that if they find no evidence that Liu had committed a crime in the U.S., the case will be dropped.

Under Taiwan law, Taiwanese citizens and civil servants are not subject to indictment for crimes committed in other countries, except in cases where the infractions are related to rebellion, piracy, drug crimes, corruption, forgery or other offenses that carry a prison term of more than three years.

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Comments

January 30, 2012 carlostpe24@

She should be prosecuted here as well. Yes, she committed fraud. Most important, she should be convicted for damaging the reputation and causing serious loss of face to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its diplomats and employees, the government and the people of the R.O.C.

February 3, 2012 ludahai_twn@

Only problem here is jurisdictional. If she didn't commit the crimes on Taiwan soil, I don't see how Taiwan's courts have jurisdiction. She should be punished through MOFA and lose her job, but I don't see how in accordance with modern notions of the 'rule of law' that she can be tried here for crimes committed in the United States.

Wait, then again, with the KMT, there is no notion of 'modern rule of law' in Taiwan anyway. Strike what I said before... doesn't apply here...