Former Cabinet official Lin freed on NT$50 million bail

Lin was earlier escorted back to the Taipei Detention Center after initially failing to post the bail set by the Taipei District Court.

The NT$50 million in cash was delivered at around 7:30 p.m. by Lin's wife, Peng Ai-chia, and her lawyers to the district court in two suitcases and tote bags. Lin and Peng walked out of the district court at 9:30 p.m. after officers finished counting the cash and completed Lin's bail process. Peng's lawyers said that she “borrowed a great deal” from friends and family to raise the money.

The scandal broke in June when a local magazine reported that Lin, while serving as a legislator in 2010, had accepted a bribe of NT$63 million (US$2.1 million) to help a private company secure a lucrative contract.

The bribe was paid by the owner of Ti Yung Co. in Kaohsiung, which was seeking to secure a slag treatment contract from a subsidiary of Taiwan-based China Steel Corp., the magazine reported.

Between February and March this year, after Lin had been appointed secretary-general of the Cabinet, he allegedly demanded a further NT$83 million from the company's owner, Chen Chi-hsiang.

When Chen refused to pay up, Lin allegedly pressured China Steel, a listed company in which the government has a controlling stake, to stop supplying slag to Ti Yung Co.

Lin has denied the charges against him.

Lin's mother Shen Jo-lan, who received the bribe along with Lin, was indicted as another principle offender in the bribery case, according to the indictment.

Lin's wife Peng and his two uncles Shen Huan-zhang and Shen Huan-yao — brothers of Shen Jo-lan — were indicted on the charge of money laundering for concealing the bribe on behalf of Lin, the indictment added.

Chen Chi-hsiang, who gave testimony against Lin as a witness for the prosecutors in the investigation, was probed in a separate case by the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office.

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