Former Kuomintang (KMT) party chairman Ma Ying-jeou yesterday
appeared in court in Taiwan for the sixth session of his trial on
corruption charges, local media reported.
Before appearing in the local court in Taipei, Ma was reported
as saying the court would understand that he had not swindled
expense funds once the whole procedure for claiming the funds had
been clarified.
Three secretaries who worked for him when he was Taipei mayor
took the stand at the court yesterday.
Ma was charged with misusing more than 11 million Taiwan dollars
($330,000) in expense funds during his tenure as mayor of
Taipei.
(China Daily July 4, 2007)