The source made the statement after The China Post reported — citing the Central News Agency — that former president Chen Shui-bian made the allegation in 2005 in an article, “Ex-President Chen kicked in the rear at his first court appearance,” Tuesday.

“The accusation is absolutely false,” the source said.

Chen was summoned by the Taipei District Court Monday to appear as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Lei and other plaintiffs.

The source, meanwhile, denied that Chen said, during the court hearing, that “it was clear as daylight that there must have been more fingers in the Lafayette pie, as the NT$15 billion commission allegedly involved in Taiwan’s US$2.8 billion purchase of six Lafayette frigates in 1991 could not have been bagged solely by the two people accused in the case,” as reported in the same article.

In fact, in the hearing, Chen denied he had ever said that, the source said.

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