Ex-president, wife get life sentences, also hit with NT$500 mil. in fines

But prosecutors' actions will not end with the district court's guilty verdict, as they are still investigating other corruption cases that the ex-first family was allegedly involved in.

The court, in concluding the trial, instructed prosecutors investigate whether the ex-first couple's children and in-laws had been more deeply involved in corruption.

Prosecutors are also ready to bring more charges in their probe into other cases that the former first family was allegedly involved, the Central News Agency said.

According to the court, former Deputy Presidential Secretary-General Ma Yung-cheng was sentenced to 20 years for helping Chen and his wife illegally make claims on the presidential expense account, the court said.

Another aide, Lin Teh-hsun, received 16 years.

But the ex-president's former cashier Chen Chen-hui, was spared of a prison term for confessing and showing remorse although she was also found guilty.

James Li, a former chief of the Hsinchu Science Park, was sentenced to six years for receiving kickbacks in a government land purchase manipulated by Chen and Wu.

The former-first lady's brother Wu Ching-mao and her sister-in-law Chen Chun-ying, both of whom were found guilty of helping her launder money, were each sentenced to two years in prison with suspension.

Other defendants in the case received suspended prison terms ranging from three to 26 months.

Prosecutors began investigating the Chen family in 2006 when Wu was said to have illegally claimed from the presidential expense account.

Subsequent investigation showed that the family was laundering money overseas, and that Chen and Wu were behind a couple of bribing-taking cases.

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