WORLD BRIEFING / TAIWAN
Times Wire Reports
Taiwan’s former first lady admitted laundering $2.2 million and forging documents.
Wu Shu-chen told a three-judge panel that she sent abroad $2.2 million she received from a contractor in connection with a government construction project and that she forged documents related to a special presidential fund.
But she did not confess to charges of embezzling money or charges of taking bribes.
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